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Examiner Thanh Lam

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2020 (64 months ago).

Examiner Thanh Lam appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 83.6%, they average 1.09 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §102 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 1.09
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
13 years (2008-2020)
Tech Center
2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group
2830 - Electrical Circuits and Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
415
Granted Applications
347
Non-Granted Applications
68
Avg OA / Grant
1.09
Last OA Observed
November 2020 (64 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2832 , 2834
Work Groups Seen
2830 - Electrical Circuits and Systems

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 83.6% 1.09
Art Unit 55 59.1% 1.55
Group 356 68.0% 1.58
Tech Center 2,370 64.7% 1.69
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
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 55 42 76.4%
2009 48 38 79.2%
2010 52 48 92.3%
2011 15 12 80.0%
2012 35 28 80.0%
2013 43 41 95.3%
2014 42 35 83.3%
2015 33 29 87.9%
2016 19 14 73.7%
2017 21 17 81.0%
2018 19 16 84.2%
2019 18 13 72.2%
2020 15 14 93.3%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 415 3.6% 47.0% 24.1% 1.4%
2 37 0.0% 29.7% 37.8% 2.7%
3 4 0.0% 25.0% 75.0% 0.0%
4 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2008
1.9%
2009
0.0%
2010
5.9%
2011
2.6%
2012
0.0%
2013
0.0%
2014
2.9%
2015
19.0%
2016
0.0%
2017
15.0%
2018
19.0%
2019
0.0%
2020

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