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Examiner Kamal B Divecha

TECH CENTER 2400 · 4 ART UNITS · 195 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
26%vs 65% weighted peer average39 pts

Examiner Kamal B Divecha has allowed 51 of 195 decided applications.

51 allowed
144 abandoned
Plus 26 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (65%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2451 · 28%AU 2453 · 13%AU 2446 · 63%AU 2455 · 0%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Kamal B Divecha maintains a pooled allowance rate of 26% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans four art units: 2446, 2451, 2453, and 2455. The allowance rate—calculated as allowed applications divided by all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned)—reflects outcomes across this pooled set. Allowance rates vary across the examiner's individual art units, ranging from 13% to 28%. This range illustrates variation in the examiner's record by subject area within the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units within a single technology center. The pooled allowance rate describes historical outcomes across all decided applications in that aggregate and is not a prediction for any specific application. Readers viewing individual art-unit pages will find separate allowance rates for each unit. The spread between the lowest and highest unit rates reflects differences in subject matter and application volume across those units.

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.4 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 2451
128 APPS · 28% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

28%
higher than about 11% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition128 decided applications

36 allowed
92 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 37.4mo
disposed 70.1mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 43.5 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 43
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
80%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
93%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
60%

Interview benefit

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

without
8%
+55 pts
with
63%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 48 decided applications with an interview and 80 without.

ART UNIT 2453
66 APPS · 13% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

13%
higher than about 6% of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition40 decided applications

35 abandoned
Plus 26 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.6mo
disposed 42.9mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.4 mo, disposed 47.5 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 43
45%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
79%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
45%
ART UNIT 2446
16 APPS · 63% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

63%
higher than about 42% of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition16 decided applications

10 allowed
6 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 26.9mo
disposed 41.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 26 mo, disposed 41.9 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 32
31%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
38%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 76
92%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
38%

Based on 16 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2455
11 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

0%
higher than about 0% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 42 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 41 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition11 decided applications

11 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.4mo
disposed 28.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 41.5 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 38
55%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
91%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
55%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
64%

Based on 11 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Kamal B Divecha

  • What is Examiner Divecha's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 26%, calculated from all allowed and abandoned applications across the examiner's four art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does Examiner Divecha work in?
    The examiner has a record across four art units: 2446, 2451, 2453, and 2455, all within TC 2400.
  • Do allowance rates vary by art unit?
    Yes. Across the examiner's individual art units, allowance rates range from 13% to 28%, reflecting differences in subject matter and application patterns within the technology center.
  • Is this pooled rate predictive of my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application. Individual art-unit rates are available separately and may differ from the overall figure.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kamal B Divecha 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: 221 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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