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Examiner Amit Singh Dhillon

TECH CENTER 3600 · 1 ART UNIT · 59 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
63%vs 65% art-unit average2 pts
higher than about 37% of the 49 examiners with published rates in art unit 3677
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 49 examiners with published rates in art unit 3677; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 51 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 49 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Amit Singh Dhillon has allowed 37 of 59 decided applications in Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License & Review.

37 allowed
22 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED AUGUST 27, 2026
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Outcomes over timemonths since first office action

grantedpendingabandoned
granted 65%abandoned 35%0%50%100%048mo36momonths since first office action
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Within 36 months of the first office action, 64.91% of Examiner Amit Singh Dhillon's applications had been granted and 35.09% had been abandoned. This counts each application from its own first office action, so it covers a different population than the overall allowance rate above, which is measured across decided applications only.

Office actions per allowanceexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

Mailed office actions per allowed application
1.60
1.38

Counts mailed office actions on the merits — non-final and final — over this examiner's 37 allowed applications. A first-action allowance counts as zero, and a notice of allowance is not an office action.

Based on 37 allowed applications — too small a sample to characterize the office-action count reliably; shown for completeness.

The art-unit average (1.60) is art unit 3677's figure. Each art-unit figure is the unweighted mean of the individual examiner values in that art unit — the peer-typical figure, not the art unit's own ratio.

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Amit Singh Dhillon maintains a public record in Technology Center 3600 (Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License & Review). Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 63%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The examiner works within a single art unit, and this pooled record reflects all examination activity across that assignment.

Reading a pooled record.

A pooled record aggregates examination outcomes across all of an examiner's assigned art units into one overall profile. The allowance rate shown here—63%—describes past decided applications and does not function as a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation that may exist among individual art units. For detailed rates by specific art unit, consult the per-art-unit breakdown elsewhere on this page.

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 →

HOW TO READ THESE NUMBERS

Past outcomes, not predictions — identity, attribution, and coverage limits on every figure on this page. Expand for the full list.

These figures describe outcomes already on the public record. They do not predict the outcome of any application and are not legal advice.

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Comparing across technology centers. Rejection-ground rates (§101, §102, §103, §112) track the subject matter a technology center examines, not examiner severity. Technology Center 3600's rates are comparable with other art units inside TC 3600 and are not comparable with rates from a different technology center.

Comparing examiners. An examiner's rates are shown here against the average for their art unit, which is the closest available comparison because art units group related subject matter. Comparisons get less reliable the further you move from that — between art units, and especially between technology centers, differences in subject matter, applicant population, and prior art make raw rate comparisons misleading. Where an examiner has few applications on record, small changes in the underlying data move the percentages a great deal.

Applications not counted. An application whose currently assigned examiner has moved to a USPTO business unit outside the examining technology centers is absent from this record, together with every office action on it — even where those actions issued while the application sat in an art unit shown here.

Coverage is incomplete. This site does not include every patent application. Applications that may not appear here include those examined in technology centers not listed on this site; those that moved elsewhere within the Office, such as to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on appeal, to central reexamination, to the Office of Petitions, or to design or plant examination; those never published, including applications filed with a nonpublication request and those abandoned before publication; provisional applications, which are not examined on the merits; anything filed or acted on after the refresh date above; and individual applications or office actions that the USPTO's public services did not return when we retrieved them. That list is illustrative, not exhaustive.

Counts may be low. The individual outcomes described here are matters of public record. The counts and rates computed from them are ours, and they are incomplete. Because of those gaps a count here may be lower than the true figure. We cannot state the size of the difference, and it is not uniform — one examiner's page may be close to complete while another's is materially short. Rates are computed from these same counts, so the uncertainty sits in both the numerator and the denominator. Do not treat a figure here as a count of record; verify against Patent Center, PatentsView, or the Patent Examination Data System before relying on it.

An absent figure. Where a figure is absent, we did not retrieve the underlying records. It does not mean the value is zero, and it does not mean the USPTO holds no such records.

Rejection-ground retrieval. Office-action rejection records are retrieved from the USPTO's office-action dataset in date-bounded batches sized so that each is returned whole in a single response. Retrieved this way, repeated pulls return the same set of records — the retrieval is reproducible. That is a property of our retrieval, not a guarantee that the USPTO dataset itself is complete; the coverage caveats above apply to these figures as to every other.

Compiled from USPTO records as published on August 27, 2026. Prosecution continues after that date and is not reflected here.

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 3677
59 APPS · 63% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

63%
higher than about 37% of the 49 examiners with published rates in art unit 3677
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 49 examiners with published rates in art unit 3677; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 51 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 49 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition59 decided applications

37 allowed
22 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.8mo
disposed 31.3mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 17.2 mo, disposed 29.3 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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
5%
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
79%
96%
§103 — Obviousness
75%
85%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
60%
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
42%
+54 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 23 decided applications with an interview and 36 without.

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Questions about Examiner Amit Singh Dhillon

  • What is Examiner Dhillon's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 63% across dozens of decided applications in TC 3600. This is the share of applications allowed among all decided matters (allowed and abandoned), excluding pending applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Examiner Dhillon is assigned to 1 art unit. The pooled record shown here aggregates all examination activity within that assignment.
  • Does the allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What technology areas does this examiner cover?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 3600 (Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License & Review).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Amit Singh Dhillon has a public record within Technology Center 3600. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated August 27, 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: 59 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.

Office actions per allowance. Mailed office actions on the merits — non-final and final — averaged over this examiner's allowed applications. A first-action allowance counts as zero and is included; a notice of allowance is not an office action. The comparison figure is built the same way as the allowance-rate benchmark — from each art unit's own average for this measure — weighted here by this examiner's allowed applications in each art unit, since that is this measure's own denominator. Each art unit's figure is the unweighted mean of its examiners' individual values, so it is the peer-typical figure rather than the art unit's own ratio.

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