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Examiner Puneet S Dhillon

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 335 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
84%vs 82% art-unit average+2 pts
higher than about 50% of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2488
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2488; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 25 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 24 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Puneet S Dhillon has allowed 281 of 335 decided applications.

281 allowed
54 abandoned
Plus 68 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Puneet S Dhillon maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner issued allowances in 84% of cases. This allowance rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The 84% figure represents the examiner's pooled historical record and does not characterize any individual application or predict outcomes in future prosecution.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates data across all art units assigned to the examiner within TC 2400. The allowance rate of 84% is a historical aggregate—a snapshot of past dispositions—and is not a prediction about any specific application. Pooled rates combine different art units and technology areas, so they describe overall patterns in the examiner's record without forecasting results in any particular 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.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 2488
403 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

84%
higher than about 50% of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2488
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2488; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 25 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 24 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition335 decided applications

281 allowed
54 abandoned
Plus 68 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.9mo
disposed 28.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.1 mo, disposed 31.5 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 24
25%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
55%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
89%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
80%

Interview benefit

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

without
79%
+14 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 119 decided applications with an interview and 216 without.

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Questions about Examiner Puneet S Dhillon

  • What is Puneet S Dhillon's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 84%, calculated as the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units in the public record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Puneet S Dhillon's record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • How large is the examiner's decided-application sample?
    The public record includes hundreds of decided applications, pooled across all of the examiner's art units.
  • Does the allowance rate predict what will happen to my application?
    No. The 84% rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Puneet S Dhillon 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: 403 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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