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Examiner Venkatanaray Perungavoor

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 1,160 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
89%vs 69% weighted peer average+20 pts

Examiner Venkatanaray Perungavoor has allowed 1,036 of 1,160 decided applications.

1,036 allowed
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (69%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2492 · 92%AU 2496 · 91%AU 2432 · 78%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Venkatanaray Perungavoor maintains a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning more than a thousand decided applications. The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 89%, measured as a percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned, excluding pending). Allowance rates across the individual art units range from 78% to 92%. This record reflects outcomes in applications already concluded; it is not a prediction of disposition for any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data from multiple art units and presents an overall statistical picture of past outcomes. The allowance rate is calculated only from applications that have been decided—either allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending matters. The range across art units reflects variation in outcomes by subject matter within TC 2400. Pooled figures describe historical record and are not predictive of any individual application's outcome.

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.3 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 2492
692 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

92%
higher than about 90% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2492
AU avg 71%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2492; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition651 decided applications

602 allowed
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.7mo
disposed 27.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.3 mo, disposed 40.9 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 42
34%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
29%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
88%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
45%

Interview benefit

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

without
92%
+2 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 296 decided applications with an interview and 355 without.

ART UNIT 2496
290 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 79% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496
AU avg 67%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 35 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 34 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition290 decided applications

263 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.7mo
disposed 31mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.6 mo, disposed 36.2 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
54%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
65%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 91
77%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
25%
ART UNIT 2432
219 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

78%
higher than about 60% of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 47 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition219 decided applications

171 allowed
48 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 35.7mo
disposed 57.4mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 42.6 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 37
70%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
68%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
28%
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Questions about Examiner Venkatanaray Perungavoor

  • What is Venkatanaray Perungavoor's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 89%, based on decided applications across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The record spans 3 art units (2432, 2492, 2496) within Technology Center 2400.
  • Do allowance rates vary across the art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates across the individual art units range from 78% to 92%, reflecting variation by subject area.
  • What does this pooled record mean for my application?
    The pooled record describes past outcomes only and is not a prediction of any specific application's disposition. Actual outcomes depend on the application's merits and circumstances.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Venkatanaray Perungavoor 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: 1,201 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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