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Examiner Rupali Dhakad

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 35 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
37%vs 65% art-unit average28 pts
higher than about 10% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 44 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 42 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Rupali Dhakad has allowed 13 of 35 decided applications.

13 allowed
22 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Rupali Dhakad maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning 1 art unit. Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 37%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), with pending applications excluded from the calculation. The allowance rate reflects outcomes on the examiner's pooled record and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decisions across all art units where the examiner has issued dispositions. The allowance rate of 37% describes past outcomes on decided applications and reflects the examiner's historical record only. Pooled figures do not predict the outcome of any specific application, nor do they account for differences in application complexity, amendment history, or claim scope across individual cases.

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 2437
79 APPS · 37% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

37%
higher than about 10% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 44 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 42 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition35 decided applications

13 allowed
22 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 24.4mo
disposed 41.8mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.6 mo, disposed 43.8 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 51
64%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
92%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
71%

Interview benefit

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

without
20%
+30 pts
with
50%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 20 decided applications with an interview and 15 without.

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Questions about Examiner Rupali Dhakad

  • What is Rupali Dhakad's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 37% across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the percentage of applications allowed among all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans 1 art unit. The pooled figures shown here aggregate all decisions across that unit.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What technology does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2400. The pooled record covers all applications decided in that technology center.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Rupali Dhakad 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: 79 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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