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Examiner Sharad K Rampuria

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 267 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAY 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
96%vs 76% weighted peer average+20 pts

Examiner Sharad K Rampuria has allowed 255 of 267 decided applications.

255 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (76%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2413 · 95%AU 2479 · 97%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Sharad K Rampuria maintains a pooled allowance rate of 96% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 95% to 97% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications—those either allowed or abandoned—and does not account for pending applications. The record reflects the examiner's historical disposition across the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units within Technology Center 2400, presenting an overall allowance rate rather than unit-specific figures. Pooled statistics describe past outcomes across a body of decided applications and reflect historical patterns only. They are not predictions about the disposition of any individual application. Art-unit-specific allowance rates, where available, may differ from the pooled aggregate and provide more granular context for particular technology areas.

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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 2413
205 APPS · 95% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

95%
higher than about 93% of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2413
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2413; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 30 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 29 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition205 decided applications

195 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 13mo
disposed 18.9mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 20 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 23
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
95%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
23%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
24%

Interview benefit

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

without
84%
+15 pts
with
99%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 147 decided applications with an interview and 58 without.

ART UNIT 2479
62 APPS · 97% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

97%
higher than about 73% of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2479
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2479; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 27 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 26 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition62 decided applications

60 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 10.6mo
disposed 18.5mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 36.5 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 26
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
33%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
100%
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Questions about Examiner Sharad K Rampuria

  • What is Sharad K Rampuria's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 96% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 95% to 97% across these art units, reflecting variation in outcomes by technology area.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate mean for my application?
    The pooled rate describes historical outcomes across decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's disposition.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sharad K Rampuria 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: 267 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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