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Examiner Ajay M Bhatia

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 118 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2011
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
73%vs 60% art-unit average+13 pts
higher than about 58% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445
AU avg 60%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Ajay M Bhatia has allowed 86 of 118 decided applications.

86 allowed
32 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ajay M Bhatia maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400, spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 73%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The allowance rate is calculated from the examiner's pooled record and describes past outcomes only.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across all assigned art units into a single pooled allowance rate. The aggregate figure describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of outcomes for any particular application. Pooled rates reflect the mix of technologies and application types the examiner has decided; they do not indicate how any individual case will be examined or decided.

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The record, art unit by art unit.1 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 2445
118 APPS · 73% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

73%
higher than about 58% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445
AU avg 60%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition118 decided applications

86 allowed
32 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 33.8mo
disposed 61mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.6 mo, disposed 47.1 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 40
65%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
74%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
70%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
43%

Interview benefit

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

without
66%
+16 pts
with
82%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 51 decided applications with an interview and 67 without.

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Questions about Examiner Ajay M Bhatia

  • What is Ajay M Bhatia's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate across all decided applications is 73%. This is the percentage of applications allowed among all decided matters (allowed plus abandoned), pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • How large is the sample underlying this allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications, pooled across all the examiner's art units.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes the examiner's past record only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ajay M Bhatia has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 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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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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