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Rakesh Kumar

ActiveArt unit 3651Tech center 36001,098 applicationsHarder than peers

Art unit3651 31 examiners
Tech center3600
Active in the record2007 to 2026, 20 years
Applications examined1,098 594 allowed, 422 abandoned, 82 pending
Main domainsA47K, B65D, G07F
DifficultyP95 in the tech center, P95 of all examiners
3-year grant rate
55%
−26 pts vs art unit 3651 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
58%
−24 pts vs art unit 3651 range 55% to 61%
Rejections before allowance
2.4
+1.1 vs art unit 3651
Months to first action
15.5 mo
+0.4 vs art unit 3651

In plain words

With Rakesh Kumar, 55% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 81% for art unit 3651. Rakesh Kumar is a harder examiner than the art unit average, in the 95th percentile of all examiners by difficulty (the 100th is the hardest). The first action takes 15.5 months on average.

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Examiner difficulty

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Timeline

Applications by filing year: drag across the years to study a period

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Grant rate from the first action

Share allowed, by months after the first office action

The gold line is this record and the blue line is art unit 3651. The marker is the three-year grant rate.

Outcome simulator

Where you are, what you do next, and the odds that follow

A model of this record’s own transitions: each examiner action, the response to it, and what came next. Thin data borrows from art unit 3651.

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Prosecution paths

How prosecution actually unfolds

Every application’s sequence of examiner actions, from the first action to the outcome. Hover a band for the count.

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Compared with peers

Against the art unit, the tech center and the USPTO

The same figures for this record, art unit 3651, the tech center and the whole office.

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Allowance over time

How fast applications are allowed, or abandoned

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is art unit 3651.

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After a response

Which grounds this examiner withdraws

How often each ground is gone from the next action once you have responded to it.

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against art unit 3651.

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Interviews

Does an interview help?

Allowance with and without an examiner interview, and how often interviews happen.

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Odds by round

Chance the next action is an allowance

After the first, second and later rejections.

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Response clock

Days from a response to the next action

How long the examiner takes to act once you have answered.

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Quarter-end timing

When allowances land in the fiscal quarter

Allowances by week of the USPTO fiscal quarter. An even spread would put 15% in the last two weeks.

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Appeals

What happens on appeal

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Trend

Allowance rate by filing year

Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is art unit 3651.

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Who files here

Assignees and firms with the most applications

How often each one was allowed with this examiner.

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Cited art

References this examiner relies on most

From the rejections and the examiner’s citation forms.

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Landscape

Where Rakesh Kumar sits in tech center 3600

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Applications

Every application examined

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
19415050AUTONOMOUS TIRE AND WHEEL BALANCER, METHOD THEREFOR AND ROBOTIC AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE …2025-12-10Pending203.1 mo
18869703BAG SUPPLY DEVICE AND BAG CONTINUOUS BAND USED THEREFOR2025-10-17Pending00n/a
19340976SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELIABLY DISPENSING PRE-PACKAGED PHARMACEUTICALS2025-09-26Pending00n/a
15793632Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15483876Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15632487Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15836909Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15833650Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15170256Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15660990Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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