Examiner Hetul B Patel has allowed 285 of 397 decided applications (72%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Hetul B Patel's public record spans Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 397 disposed applications, 285 were allowed and 112 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 72% over the decided pool. The examiner's work falls within a single art unit (2186). This record reflects outcomes on applications that have reached final disposition; it does not include pending cases and is not predictive of any individual application's outcome.
A pooled record aggregates all disposed applications across an examiner's assigned art units. The allowance rate represents past decisions on applications that have been either allowed or abandoned—pending applications are excluded. Aggregate figures describe historical outcomes and are correlational summaries, not predictions of how any specific application will be examined or decided. Individual case outcomes vary based on claim scope, prior art, and prosecution history.
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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.
Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 117 decided applications with an interview and 280 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hetul B 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 June 25, 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: 397 applications.
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