Examiner Hung T. Nguyen

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2020 (65 months ago).

Examiner Hung T. Nguyen appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 82.1%, they average 1.41 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.41

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 13 years (2008-2020)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 661
Granted Applications: 543
Non-Granted Applications: 118
Avg OA / Grant: 1.41
Last OA Observed: October 2020 (65 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2612 , 2681 , 2682 , 2683 , 2686
Work Groups Seen: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	82.1%	1.41
Art Unit	44	52.3%	1.75
Group	112	66.5%	1.80
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	50	39	78.0%
2009	44	28	63.6%
2010	52	42	80.8%
2011	54	43	79.6%
2012	54	45	83.3%
2013	55	43	78.2%
2014	56	51	91.1%
2015	52	39	75.0%
2016	51	43	84.3%
2017	67	59	88.1%
2018	41	37	90.2%
2019	43	37	86.0%
2020	42	37	88.1%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	668	5.2%	4.3%	71.3%	2.8%
2	190	0.5%	2.1%	79.5%	1.1%
3	63	1.6%	1.6%	87.3%	3.2%
4	27	0.0%	3.7%	81.5%	11.1%
5	7	14.3%	0.0%	71.4%	14.3%
6	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

4.3%

2008

3.1%

2009

12.7%

2010

10.5%

2011

4.9%

2012

0.0%

2013

7.3%

2014

1.2%

2015

1.5%

2016

1.2%

2017

0.0%

2018

1.5%

2019

0.0%

2020

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