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Examiner Rachna Singh Desai

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 118 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2010
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
47%vs 59% art-unit average12 pts

Examiner Rachna Singh Desai has allowed 55 of 118 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed55abandoned63pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Rachna Singh Desai maintains a public record across one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate stands at 47%. This figure represents the share of applications in the examiner's pooled record that were allowed, measured against all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The record reflects outcomes on applications within TC 2100 and does not include pending matters.

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This pooled record aggregates outcomes across all art units where the examiner has decided applications. The 47% allowance rate describes the examiner's historical outcomes across decided cases and is a factual summary of past dispositions. Aggregate figures describe what has occurred, not what will occur in any specific future application. Individual applications may follow different paths regardless of aggregate statistics.

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◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2176
118 APPS · 47% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.

47% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 59%
DISPOSITION55 / 63 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION30.4 moart unit avg 23.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY58.5 moart unit avg 40.5 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW65%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW23%+42 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 66 decided applications with an interview and 52 without.

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Questions about Examiner Rachna Singh Desai

  • What is Rachna Singh Desai's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 47%, measured across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The record covers one art unit (2176) within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) that were allowed. It excludes pending applications and is a historical measure, not a prediction of any specific application.
  • What technology areas does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record is in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Rachna Singh Desai 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: 118 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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