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Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 94 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION SEP 2023
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
24%vs 61% weighted peer average37 pts

Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel has allowed 23 of 94 decided applications.

23 allowed
71 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (61%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2491 · 2%AU 2449 · 52%AU 2456 · 41%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel has an overall allowance rate of 24% across dozens of decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, spanning 3 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across these art units the allowance rate ranges from 2% to 52%. These are pooled figures from the public USPTO record, not predictions about any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

This page pools Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel's record across 3 art units into one overall allowance rate — total allowed divided by total decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, with pending excluded. Aggregate figures describe the past public record and are not predictions about any specific application. This is general information about the data, not legal advice.

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The record, art unit by art unit.3 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 2491
48 APPS · 2% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

2%
higher than about 6% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2491
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2491; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition48 decided applications

47 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 24.7mo
disposed 30.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 40 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 41
38%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
71%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
83%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
63%

Based on 48 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2449
29 APPS · 52% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

52%
higher than about 35% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449
AU avg 55%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition29 decided applications

15 allowed
14 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 30.6mo
disposed 57.1mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.9 mo, disposed 40.3 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
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Based on 29 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2456
17 APPS · 41% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

41%
higher than about 26% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2456
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2456; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition17 decided applications

7 allowed
10 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 34.4mo
disposed 51.8mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 42.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel

  • What is Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel's overall allowance rate?
    24% across dozens of decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications in public USPTO data, pooled over 3 art units.
  • How many art units does Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel examine in?
    3 art units within Technology Center 2400, based on the public record.
  • Does Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel's allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Across the examiner's substantial art units the allowance rate ranges from 2% to 52% in public USPTO data.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ashokkumar B Patel 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: 94 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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