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Examiner Anil Khatri

TECH CENTER 2100 · 5 ART UNITS · 1,286 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 5 ART UNITS
92%vs 75% weighted peer average+17 pts

Examiner Anil Khatri has allowed 1,181 of 1,286 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed1,181abandoned105pending22· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (5 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2191 · 92%AU 2197 · 97%AU 2193 · 74%AU 2124 · 89%AU 2122 · 83%
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What the data says.

Examiner Anil Khatri maintains a pooled allowance rate of 92% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans 5 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate ranges from 74% to 97% across these art units, reflecting variation in the composition and examination outcomes within different subject-matter areas under his jurisdiction. This pooled figure represents applications that have received a final disposition—either allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates allowance rates across multiple art units into a single overall figure. This aggregate represents past dispositions and describes what has occurred across the examiner's work, not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Allowance rates vary by art unit; the range shown reflects that variation. Pooled data is useful for understanding an examiner's overall record but does not forecast the result in any individual case.

These are aggregate statistics from this examiner's past public record — not predictions about any specific application. The per-art-unit figures below show how the record varies across art units. Our approach to patent prosecution →

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The record, art unit by art unit.

Each section benchmarks this examiner against that art unit's average. Figures are this examiner's own public record within the art unit; the overall rate above pools them.

◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2191
1,185 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines software engineering, and error detection, correction, and monitoring.

92% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 76%
DISPOSITION1073 / 90 / 22allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.4 moart unit avg 28.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY30 moart unit avg 41.1 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility50%art unit 53%3 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)41%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness73%art unit 86%13 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness48%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW99%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW80%+19 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 755 decided applications with an interview and 408 without.

ART UNIT 2197
60 APPS · 97% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution, and software engineering.

97% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 69%
DISPOSITION58 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION16.9 moart unit avg 26 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY24.7 moart unit avg 44.4 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility46%art unit 53%7 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)52%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 90%+5 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness30%no art-unit benchmark
ART UNIT 2193
38 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines software engineering, and error detection, correction, and monitoring.

74% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 70%
DISPOSITION28 / 10 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION36.2 moart unit avg 30.6 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY49.3 moart unit avg 44 mo
ART UNIT 2124
19 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

89% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 64%
DISPOSITION17 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION35.1 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44.6 moart unit avg 41.8 mo
ART UNIT 2122
6 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

83% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION5 / 1 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION10.2 moart unit avg 27.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY16.7 moart unit avg 39.3 mo
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Questions about Examiner Anil Khatri

  • What is Examiner Khatri's overall allowance rate?
    Across more than a thousand decided applications, Examiner Khatri's pooled allowance rate is 92%.
  • How many art units does Examiner Khatri work in?
    Examiner Khatri has a public record spanning 5 art units in TC 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 74% to 97%, reflecting differences in examination outcomes by art unit.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Anil Khatri has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 14, 2026. The overall allowance rate is total allowed divided by total decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across all art units — not an average of the per-art-unit rates; pending applications are excluded. Figures are rounded for display. Pooled sample: 1,308 applications.

Rejection rates. Each §-rate is the share of this examiner's applications that drew at least one office-action rejection in which that statutory ground appears; applications with no rejection on record are excluded, and because grounds can co-occur the four do not sum to 100%. The art-unit figure beside each is the unweighted mean of the per-examiner rates across the art unit, published for §101 and §103 only. Beside the overall allowance rate we show a benchmark: for a single-art-unit examiner it is exactly that art unit's average, labeled “art-unit average”; for an examiner spanning several art units it is the “weighted peer average” — the per-art-unit averages, weighted by this examiner's application count in each — labeled distinctly because it is a blended figure, not any single art unit's average. Both are built from the same per-art-unit averages the panels show.

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