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Examiner Ajay P Cattungal

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,020 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
89%vs 74% weighted peer average+15 pts

Examiner Ajay P Cattungal has allowed 911 of 1,020 decided applications.

911 allowed
Plus 34 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2467 · 90%AU 2419 · 38%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ajay P Cattungal maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across more than a thousand decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 89%, meaning that of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), 89% were allowed. This figure represents the pooled record and does not break down by individual art unit. The allowance rate reflects outcomes on applications that have reached final disposition and excludes pending applications.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates examination activity across multiple art units within TC 2400. The 89% allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures smooth variation across different subject areas and do not indicate performance on any particular art unit or technology class.

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 →

The record, art unit by art unit.2 art units

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 2467
1,046 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

90%
higher than about 72% of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2467
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2467; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 26 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 25 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition1,012 decided applications

908 allowed
Plus 34 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.3mo
disposed 29.6mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.2 mo, disposed 35.7 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 24
3%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
55%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
56%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
9%

Interview benefit

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

without
89%
+8 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 115 decided applications with an interview and 897 without.

ART UNIT 2419
8 APPS · 38% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

38%
higher than about 20% of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition8 decided applications

3 allowed
5 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.5mo
disposed 36.8mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Ajay P Cattungal

  • What is Ajay P Cattungal's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 89% across more than a thousand decided applications, pooled across all art units. This represents the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does this pooled rate apply to my specific art unit?
    This pooled figure combines outcomes across multiple art units and does not reflect performance on any individual art unit. Per-art-unit detail is available in separate sections of this profile.
  • What does the allowance rate include and exclude?
    The 89% allowance rate is calculated from decided applications (allowed and abandoned). Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ajay P Cattungal 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: 1,054 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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