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Examiner Trung Diep

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2018 (96 months ago).

Examiner Trung Diep appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 83.4%, they average 1.71 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by ยง103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average
Difficulty vs Group About Average
Difficulty vs TC Very Easy
Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy
Average OA / Grant 1.71
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
12 years (2007-2018)
Tech Center
2600 - Communications
Group
2660 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
531
Granted Applications
443
Non-Granted Applications
88
Avg OA / Grant
1.71
Last OA Observed
April 2018 (96 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2622 , 2664
Work Groups Seen

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 83.4% 1.71
Art Unit 29 69.2% 1.65
Group 289 65.3% 1.66
Tech Center 1,729 59.3% 1.88
USPTO 16,116 54.8% 1.98

Grant Timeline

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.
Year Applications Granted Grant Rate
2007 4 2 50.0%
2008 27 23 85.2%
2009 44 29 65.9%
2010 52 41 78.8%
2011 63 54 85.7%
2012 54 42 77.8%
2013 49 43 87.8%
2014 56 49 87.5%
2015 48 41 85.4%
2016 59 53 89.8%
2017 58 52 89.7%
2018 17 14 82.4%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 536 2.4% 31.7% 60.3% 0.6%
2 245 0.8% 25.7% 68.6% 0.0%
3 95 0.0% 22.1% 77.9% 0.0%
4 39 0.0% 23.1% 76.9% 0.0%
5 15 0.0% 20.0% 80.0% 0.0%
6 8 0.0% 12.5% 87.5% 0.0%
7 2 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
0.0%
2007
0.0%
2008
0.0%
2009
2.0%
2010
1.9%
2011
2.1%
2012
2.2%
2013
1.0%
2014
1.1%
2015
1.2%
2016
5.3%
2017
0.0%
2018

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