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Examiner Aravind K Moorthy

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 977 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
82%vs 71% weighted peer average+11 pts

Examiner Aravind K Moorthy has allowed 803 of 977 decided applications.

803 allowed
174 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (71%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2492 · 83%AU 2431 · 72%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Aravind K Moorthy maintains an 82% allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans two art units, with allowance rates ranging from 72% to 83% across these units. The allowance rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), pooled across the examiner's art-unit assignments. This figure describes the examiner's historical record and does not predict outcomes for any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units into a single allowance-rate figure. This aggregate describes the examiner's past decisions across the art units combined and represents a historical summary only. The range of rates across individual art units reflects variation in the examiner's record within different subject areas. Pooled and per-unit figures are correlational descriptions of past decisions, not predictive tools for any pending application.

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 2492
875 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

83%
higher than about 67% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2492
AU avg 71%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2492; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition875 decided applications

730 allowed
145 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.4mo
disposed 35.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.3 mo, disposed 40.9 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 42
29%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
78%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
69%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
35%

Interview benefit

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

without
79%
+12 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 325 decided applications with an interview and 550 without.

ART UNIT 2431
102 APPS · 72% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

72%
higher than about 24% of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 52 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 46 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition102 decided applications

73 allowed
29 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 36.5mo
disposed 64.4mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 35.1 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
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
40%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
40%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
56%
+35 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 45 decided applications with an interview and 57 without.

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Questions about Examiner Aravind K Moorthy

  • What is Aravind K Moorthy's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 82%, calculated as the percentage of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans two art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 72% to 83% across the examiner's art units. This range reflects variation in the examiner's historical record within different subject areas.
  • What does the allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The allowance rate is a historical aggregate and describes past decisions only. It 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 Aravind K Moorthy 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: 977 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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