Examiner Minh N. Tang

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2021 (60 months ago).

Examiner Minh N. Tang 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 1.36 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 1.36

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 14 years (2008-2021)
Tech Center: 2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group: 2860 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 686
Granted Applications: 563
Non-Granted Applications: 123
Avg OA / Grant: 1.36
Last OA Observed: April 2021 (60 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2829 , 2858 , 2867
Work Groups Seen: 2820 - Semiconductors A / Memory

2850 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

2860 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	82.1%	1.36
Art Unit	13	73.7%	1.63
Group	133	67.4%	1.82
Tech Center	2,370	64.7%	1.69
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	48	37	77.1%
2009	63	47	74.6%
2010	55	41	74.5%
2011	40	33	82.5%
2012	50	39	78.0%
2013	60	52	86.7%
2014	47	36	76.6%
2015	62	55	88.7%
2016	58	48	82.8%
2017	51	42	82.4%
2018	54	48	88.9%
2019	43	35	81.4%
2020	47	42	89.4%
2021	8	8	100.0%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	687	3.2%	38.3%	51.5%	3.8%
2	201	5.0%	28.4%	56.7%	6.5%
3	47	0.0%	21.3%	66.0%	8.5%
4	15	0.0%	13.3%	66.7%	6.7%
5	2	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

4.3%

2010

7.0%

2011

9.6%

2012

0.0%

2013

1.4%

2014

1.1%

2015

3.5%

2016

10.5%

2017

5.1%

2018

1.4%

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.