Examiner Nguyen H. Truong

Grant ratio: 51.8% (36th percentile in Art Unit 2691 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.60. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 51.8%
Average office actions / grant 2.60
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87848
Primary art unit
2691
Work group
2620
Technology center
2600
Applications
508
Granted applications
263
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1630
Supervisor
Chanh Nguyen
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7772

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 22 51.2% 2.01
Group 279 55.5% 2.00
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.60 1,323 office actions across 508 applications
Applications with office actions 96.9% 492 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 16 3.1%
1 OA 156 30.7%
2 OAs 142 28.0%
3 OAs 62 12.2%
4 OAs 64 12.6%
5+ OAs 68 13.4%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 18.2% 2011 2012: 29.4% 2012 2013: 35.5% 2013 2014: 35.9% 2014 2015: 42.9% 2015 2016: 43.6% 2016 2017: 36.4% 2017 2018: 58.3% 2018 2019: 63.6% 2019 2020: 80.5% 2020 2021: 70.8% 2021 2022: 86.1% 2022 2023: 80.0% 2023 2024: 79.4% 2024 2025: 45.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201111218.2%
2012341029.4%
2013311135.5%
2014391435.9%
201521942.9%
2016391743.6%
2017331236.4%
2018362158.3%
2019332163.6%
2020413380.5%
2021241770.8%
2022363186.1%
2023302480.0%
2024342779.4%
2025311445.2%
20263500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 492 0.2% 5.1% 88.8% 2.0%
Action 2 336 0.3% 2.4% 95.8% 0.6%
Action 3 194 0.0% 2.6% 95.9% 1.0%
Action 4 132 0.0% 0.8% 99.2% 0.0%
Action 5 68 0.0% 1.5% 98.5% 0.0%
Action 6 45 0.0% 2.2% 97.8% 0.0%
Action 7 28 0.0% 3.6% 96.4% 0.0%
Action 8 20 0.0% 5.0% 95.0% 0.0%
Action 9 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 203 office actions
All years 0.2% 2 of 1,323 office actions
Change -0.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 14. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
35.7% 5/14 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
42.9% 6/14 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 22, 2026 17/737,664 Affirmed §103 · §112
Mar. 23, 2023 16/729,795 Reversed §112
Aug. 22, 2022 16/925,609 Reversed §102 · §103
Aug. 12, 2022 15/902,007 Affirmed §103
Apr. 4, 2022 12/645,037 Affirmed §103
Mar. 10, 2022 16/279,095 Affirmed §103
Oct. 29, 2021 16/170,322 Affirmed §103
Dec. 8, 2020 14/636,811 Affirmed in part §103
Feb. 26, 2018 12/950,693 Affirmed §103
Jan. 31, 2018 13/621,103 Reversed §103
Oct. 31, 2016 12/949,931 Reversed §103
Apr. 29, 2016 12/959,600 Affirmed N/A

The examiner match uses the last recorded office action before the decision. Reversal rates exclude rehearings, remands, dismissals, and other decisions that did not reach the merits. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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