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Examiner Nevena Zecevic Sandhu

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 212 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
76%vs 74% art-unit average+2 pts
higher than about 33% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2474
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2474; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Nevena Zecevic Sandhu has allowed 162 of 212 decided applications.

162 allowed
50 abandoned
Plus 42 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Nevena Zecevic Sandhu maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. Her pooled allowance rate stands at 76% of decided applications across hundreds of decided applications. This figure reflects the proportion of applications that issued as allowed out of all applications with a final disposition (allowed or abandoned). The record aggregates her examination activity within the assigned art unit and represents her historical performance on decided matters.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record combines examination data across all assigned art units into a single aggregate figure. The allowance rate describes past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific application outcome. Aggregate statistics mask variation among individual art units and do not forecast how any particular examination will proceed. The decided-application count establishes the scale of the underlying data; larger pools are generally more stable representations of historical record.

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.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 2474
254 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 33% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2474
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2474; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition212 decided applications

162 allowed
50 abandoned
Plus 42 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.3mo
disposed 34.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.7 mo, disposed 38.7 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 25
23%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
38%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
61%

Interview benefit

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

without
73%
+6 pts
with
79%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 119 decided applications with an interview and 93 without.

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Questions about Examiner Nevena Zecevic Sandhu

  • What is Nevena Zecevic Sandhu's overall allowance rate?
    Her pooled allowance rate is 76% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    She maintains a record in one art unit within TC 2400.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. This rate describes past dispositions only and is not a prediction of any specific application. Actual outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and examination conduct in an individual case.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those with a final disposition—either allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Nevena Zecevic Sandhu 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: 254 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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