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Examiner Haresh N Patel

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 130 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2008
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
65%vs 58% art-unit average+7 pts

Examiner Haresh N Patel has allowed 84 of 130 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed84abandoned46pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Haresh N Patel maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 65%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided matters (allowed and abandoned applications combined). The allowance rate reflects the examiner's historical record and does not forecast outcomes in any specific case. All statistics are based on pooled data across the examiner's art-unit assignments.

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This profile aggregates the examiner's record across all assigned art units in TC 2100. The allowance rate of 65% describes past decisions on applications that reached final disposition (allowed or abandoned). Pooled figures combine different technology areas and cannot predict any individual application's outcome. Aggregate statistics measure historical patterns, not future results. Each application proceeds on its own merits.

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◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2154
130 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

65% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION84 / 46 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION38.4 moart unit avg 27.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY52.7 moart unit avg 41.9 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW90%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW44%+46 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 59 decided applications with an interview and 71 without.

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  • What is Haresh N Patel's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 65%, measured across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned). This is a historical measure, not a prediction of any specific application's disposition.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Haresh N Patel's record spans one art unit within TC 2100. This profile shows pooled statistics across all assigned art units.
  • What technology areas does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Subject-matter assignments may vary across art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Haresh N Patel 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: 130 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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