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Examiner Madelein A. Nguyen

Appears inactive Last observed office action: June 2021 (58 months ago).

Examiner Madelein A. Nguyen appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 82.2%, they average 1.68 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by ยง103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy
Difficulty vs Group Very Easy
Difficulty vs TC Very Easy
Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy
Average OA / Grant 1.68
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
14 years (2008-2021)
Tech Center
2600 - Communications
Group
2670 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
465
Granted Applications
382
Non-Granted Applications
83
Avg OA / Grant
1.68
Last OA Observed
June 2021 (58 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2625 , 2672 , 2673 , 2674 , 2676
Work Groups Seen
2620 - Selective Visual Display Systems
2670 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 82.2% 1.68
Art Unit 17 51.6% 1.84
Group 136 54.5% 1.79
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% 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008 30 20 66.7%
2009 36 25 69.4%
2010 27 23 85.2%
2011 40 32 80.0%
2012 45 32 71.1%
2013 37 30 81.1%
2014 38 34 89.5%
2015 34 27 79.4%
2016 38 34 89.5%
2017 37 35 94.6%
2018 30 25 83.3%
2019 27 26 96.3%
2020 29 22 75.9%
2021 17 17 100.0%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 465 2.8% 9.7% 78.3% 8.6%
2 195 3.6% 5.6% 84.1% 4.6%
3 85 1.2% 3.5% 84.7% 8.2%
4 38 2.6% 0.0% 92.1% 2.6%
5 15 6.7% 6.7% 86.7% 0.0%
6 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
7 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2008
3.1%
2009
1.8%
2010
7.6%
2011
5.5%
2012
1.3%
2013
0.0%
2014
0.0%
2015
3.3%
2016
13.6%
2017
2.2%
2018
0.0%
2019
0.0%
2020
0.0%
2021

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