Examiner Phan Le

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2018 (91 months ago).

Examiner Phan Le appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 70.5%, they average 2.09 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.09

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 9 years (2010-2018)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 305
Granted Applications: 215
Non-Granted Applications: 90
Avg OA / Grant: 2.09
Last OA Observed: September 2018 (91 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2614 , 2651
Work Groups Seen: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	70.5%	2.09
Art Unit	14	58.8%	2.08
Group	207	61.5%	1.87
Tech Center	1,729	59.3%	1.88
USPTO	16,116	54.8%	1.98

Grant Timeline

Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.

Year	Applications	Granted	Grant Rate
No observed data before 2010; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2010	1	0	0.0%
2011	33	21	63.6%
2012	44	29	65.9%
2013	67	46	68.7%
2014	32	21	65.6%
2015	38	29	76.3%
2016	39	29	74.4%
2017	25	17	68.0%
2018	26	23	88.5%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

215 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	332	0.3%	2.4%	97.3%	0.0%
2	190	0.0%	0.5%	99.5%	0.0%
3	90	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
4	50	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
5	21	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	13	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	6	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

0.0%

2016

1.4%

2017

0.0%

2018

Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.