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Examiner Suman Rajaputra

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 173 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
70%vs 63% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Suman Rajaputra has allowed 121 of 173 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed121abandoned52pending41· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (63%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2163 · 65%AU 2164 · 75%
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What the data says.

Suman Rajaputra maintains a pooled allowance rate of 70% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans 2 art units. Allowance rates across these art units range from 65% to 75%. This pooled figure represents the share of allowed applications among all decided cases (allowed and abandoned combined) and does not reflect pending applications. The record reflects historical disposition patterns and is not predictive of outcomes in individual cases.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's decisions across multiple art units within TC 2100. The overall allowance rate describes past dispositions and does not predict the outcome of any specific application. Pooled figures mask variation between art units; applicants examining a focused prosecution in one art unit may reference the per-art-unit breakout available separately on this page. Aggregate statistics correlate historical patterns and are not causal or predictive.

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 2163
123 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

65% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 64%
DISPOSITION53 / 29 / 41allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION16 moart unit avg 23.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY34.5 moart unit avg 40.3 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 eligibility56%art unit 51%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)99%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 77%+20 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness53%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW77%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW47%+30 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 48 decided applications with an interview and 34 without.

ART UNIT 2164
91 APPS · 75% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

75% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION68 / 23 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.1 moart unit avg 22.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.7 moart unit avg 43.4 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 eligibility40%art unit 58%18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)92%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness98%art unit 88%+10 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness49%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW89%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW45%+44 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 62 decided applications with an interview and 29 without.

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Questions about Examiner Suman Rajaputra

  • What is Suman Rajaputra's overall allowance rate?
    70% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units. This represents the percentage of allowed applications among all decided cases (allowed plus abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    2 art units, both within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates range from 65% to 75% across the examiner's art units. Per-art-unit figures are available in the separate art-unit detail section.
  • Is the pooled allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The pooled figure describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Suman Rajaputra 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: 214 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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