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Examiner Kalpit Parikh

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 664 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
81%vs 69% weighted peer average+12 pts

Examiner Kalpit Parikh has allowed 538 of 664 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed538abandoned126pending30· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (69%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2137 · 90%AU 2187 · 58%
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What the data says.

Kalpit Parikh has a pooled allowance rate of 81% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications decided as allowed or abandoned—reflects outcomes pooled across this breadth of subject matter. Allowance rates across his art units range from 58% to 90%, indicating variation in outcomes by art unit. This pooled figure describes his historical record and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's outcomes across multiple art units within TC 2100. The 81% allowance rate is a historical aggregate—the share of decided applications that were allowed or abandoned—and reflects patterns across different areas of the technology center. Pooled figures describe past performance and are not predictions of results in any specific case. Per-art-unit breakdowns appear elsewhere on this page and may show material variation from the pooled figure.

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 2137
512 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.

90% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 68%
DISPOSITION433 / 49 / 30allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION17.1 moart unit avg 25.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY33.9 moart unit avg 41.7 mo
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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 eligibility22%art unit 25%3 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)66%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness80%art unit 84%4 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness45%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW92%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW88%+4 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 204 decided applications with an interview and 278 without.

ART UNIT 2187
182 APPS · 58% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

58% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION105 / 77 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.7 moart unit avg 23.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.8 moart unit avg 36.4 mo
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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 eligibility45%art unit 40%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)67%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness81%art unit 77%+4 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness48%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW76%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW51%+25 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 50 decided applications with an interview and 132 without.

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Questions about Examiner Kalpit Parikh

  • What is Kalpit Parikh's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 81% across hundreds of decided applications. This is the percentage of applications decided as allowed or abandoned, pooled across all his art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Kalpit Parikh's public record spans 2 art units, both within TC 2100.
  • How does his allowance rate vary across art units?
    Allowance rates across his art units range from 58% to 90%. This range reflects variation in outcomes by art unit and does not identify which rate applies to any specific art unit.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kalpit Parikh 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: 694 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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