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Examiner Kamini S Shah

TECH CENTER 2100 · 6 ART UNITS · 165 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 6 ART UNITS
39%vs 55% weighted peer average16 pts

Examiner Kamini S Shah has allowed 64 of 165 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed64abandoned101pending19· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (55%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (6 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2142 · 86%AU 2123 · 3%AU 2115 · 90%AU 2146 · 10%AU 2128 · 10%AU 2127 · 0%
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What the data says.

Examiner Kamini S Shah maintains a public record across six art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 39%, representing the share of applications that issued as allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's record. The allowance rate ranges from 3% to 90% across these art units, reflecting variation in outcomes by subject matter within the technology center. This pooled figure aggregates decisions across art units 2115, 2123, 2127, 2128, 2142, and 2146.

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How to read these numbers.

This record presents a pooled allowance rate—an aggregate across multiple art units and subject areas within TC 2100. The 39% figure describes past dispositions on decided applications and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application. Pooled rates average distinct outcomes across different art units; the range of 3% to 90% illustrates that allowance outcomes vary significantly depending on the particular subject matter and art unit involved. Individual applications may face different patterns.

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 2142
57 APPS · 86% ALLOWANCE

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

86% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 45%
DISPOSITION49 / 8 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.8 moart unit avg 30.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.3 moart unit avg 48.3 mo
ART UNIT 2123
34 APPS · 3% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

3% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 51%
DISPOSITION1 / 33 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28 moart unit avg 29.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.4 moart unit avg 43.8 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 eligibility47%art unit 61%14 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)63%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness84%art unit 85%1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness53%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 34 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2115
29 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines control or regulating systems, and electric power networks.

90% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 81%
DISPOSITION9 / 1 / 19allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION33.3 moart unit avg 25.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY51.8 moart unit avg 36.3 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 eligibility64%art unit 33%+31 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)68%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness84%art unit 83%+1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness48%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 29 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2146
29 APPS · 10% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

10% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 50%
DISPOSITION3 / 26 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION29.1 moart unit avg 32 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY41.8 moart unit avg 45 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 eligibility76%art unit 71%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)62%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness90%art unit 91%1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness72%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 29 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2128
21 APPS · 10% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

10% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION2 / 19 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION32.4 moart unit avg 30 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.8 moart unit avg 46.5 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 eligibility0%art unit 66%66 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)0%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 84%+16 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness0%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 21 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2127
14 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

0% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION0 / 14 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.4 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY27.6 moart unit avg 41.8 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 eligibility75%art unit 53%+22 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)75%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness75%art unit 78%3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness75%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 14 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Kamini S Shah

  • What is Examiner Shah's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 39% across hundreds of decided applications. This represents the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's record, and does not predict the outcome of any individual application.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Shah has a record spanning six art units (2115, 2123, 2127, 2128, 2142, and 2146) within TC 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. Allowance rates range from 3% to 90% across the examiner's art units. The pooled 39% figure aggregates these different outcomes, and individual art units may show higher or lower allowance rates than the overall average.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kamini S Shah 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: 184 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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