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Examiner Saket K Daftuar

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 400 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2018
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
69%vs 65% art-unit average+4 pts
higher than about 40% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Saket K Daftuar has allowed 275 of 400 decided applications.

275 allowed
125 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Saket K Daftuar maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. His pooled allowance rate stands at 69% of decided applications—meaning that among applications with final outcomes (allowed or abandoned), 69% received allowance. This figure is derived from hundreds of decided applications. The allowance rate describes his historical record and does not indicate the outcome of any pending or future application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates outcomes across all of the examiner's art units in TC 2400. The 69% allowance rate reflects historical dispositions on decided applications and describes past performance only. Aggregate figures do not predict results on any individual application, nor do they account for case-specific circumstances, claim language, prior art, or prosecution history.

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 2451
400 APPS · 69% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

69%
higher than about 40% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition400 decided applications

275 allowed
125 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 28.6mo
disposed 55.9mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 43.5 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 43
59%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
65%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
78%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
39%

Interview benefit

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

without
60%
+18 pts
with
78%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 192 decided applications with an interview and 208 without.

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Questions about Examiner Saket K Daftuar

  • What is Saket K Daftuar's allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 69% of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This represents applications with final outcomes (allowed or abandoned), not pending filings.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Saket K Daftuar's public record spans one art unit in TC 2400. The pooled allowance rate aggregates all applications across that unit.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes historical dispositions across hundreds of past decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome and does not account for individual case facts, claim scope, or prosecution conduct.
  • What is the size of this examiner's record?
    The pooled allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications in TC 2400.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Saket K Daftuar 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: 400 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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