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Examiner Pinkal R Chokshi

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 547 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
60%vs 68% art-unit average8 pts
higher than about 30% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Pinkal R Chokshi has allowed 326 of 547 decided applications.

326 allowed
221 abandoned
Plus 35 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Pinkal R Chokshi maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 60% across hundreds of decided applications. This rate reflects the share of applications in the examiner's record that were allowed, measured against the total of allowed and abandoned applications. The 60% allowance rate is the examiner's historical outcome across this aggregate pool and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across all assigned art units into a single pooled figure. The allowance rate describes past outcomes on decided applications and represents a historical average, not a forecast for individual cases. Pooled statistics combine different art areas and examination circumstances; they characterize the overall record but do not predict the disposition of any particular 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.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 2425
582 APPS · 60% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

60%
higher than about 30% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition547 decided applications

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

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.2mo
disposed 42.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 18.9 mo, disposed 36.3 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 24
23%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
92%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
50%

Interview benefit

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

without
48%
+29 pts
with
77%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 220 decided applications with an interview and 327 without.

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Questions about Examiner Pinkal R Chokshi

  • What is Pinkal R Chokshi's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 60%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record covers one art unit in TC 2400.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2400. Specific art-unit details are available in the per-unit breakdown section of this profile.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Pinkal R Chokshi 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: 582 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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