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Examiner Nishant B Divecha

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 270 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
56%vs 63% weighted peer average7 pts

Examiner Nishant B Divecha has allowed 150 of 270 decided applications.

150 allowed
120 abandoned
Plus 16 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (63%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2466 · 51%AU 2419 · 67%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Nishant B Divecha maintains a pooled allowance rate of 56% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 51% to 67% across these art units. This pooled figure reflects the proportion of applications that received an allowance among all decided applications—those allowed and abandoned combined—with pending applications excluded from the calculation.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, producing an overall allowance rate that describes past examination outcomes. The 56% figure represents historical performance across all the examiner's decided cases in TC 2400, not a prediction for any individual application. Variation exists between art units (the 51% to 67% range), which is typical when pooling separate practice areas. Pooled statistics describe what occurred; they do not forecast results in a specific case.

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 2466
186 APPS · 51% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

51%
higher than about 20% of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2466
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2466; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition186 decided applications

94 allowed
92 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.5mo
disposed 39.7mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.9 mo, disposed 37.8 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 22
24%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
90%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
72%

Interview benefit

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

without
30%
+41 pts
with
71%

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

ART UNIT 2419
100 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

67%
higher than about 54% 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.

Disposition84 decided applications

56 allowed
28 abandoned
Plus 16 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.6mo
disposed 38.9mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 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
26%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
94%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
74%

Interview benefit

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

without
54%
+28 pts
with
82%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 38 decided applications with an interview and 46 without.

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Questions about Examiner Nishant B Divecha

  • What is Nishant B Divecha's overall allowance rate?
    56% of decided applications received an allowance, across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner has a pooled record spanning 2 art units.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 51% to 67% across these art units.
  • Does this pooled rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The 56% figure describes historical outcomes across all of the examiner's decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's result.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Nishant 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: 286 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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