Examiner Nirav B Patel has allowed 38 of 78 decided applications (49%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Nirav B Patel maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 78 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 38 and abandoned 40, yielding an allowance rate of 49%. This rate reflects the ratio of allowed to decided applications in the examiner's pooled record. The examiner's work spans a single art unit within TC 2100. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's historical decisions and does not predict the outcome of any individual application.
A pooled record aggregates decisions across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate shown here is a historical summary of the examiner's past dispositions—allowed versus abandoned applications—and reflects the composition of applications the examiner has examined. This aggregate figure describes past record only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual applications may vary based on their unique facts and claims.
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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 input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 19 decided applications with an interview and 59 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Nirav 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: 78 applications.
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