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Vishal I Patel

ActiveArt unit 1746Tech center 17001,136 applicationsEasier than peers

Art unit1746 37 examiners
Tech center1700
Active in the record2009 to 2026, 18 years
Applications examined1,136 872 allowed, 198 abandoned, 66 pending
Main domainsB29C, B32B, A61F
DifficultyP16 in the tech center, P16 of all examiners
3-year grant rate
80%
+12 pts vs art unit 1746 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
82%
+10 pts vs art unit 1746 range 79% to 84%
Rejections before allowance
1.2
−0.4 vs art unit 1746
Months to first action
19.0 mo
−0.8 vs art unit 1746

In plain words

With Vishal I Patel, 80% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 68% for art unit 1746. Vishal I Patel is an easier examiner than the art unit average, in the 16th percentile of all examiners by difficulty (the 100th is the hardest). The first action takes 19.0 months on average.

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Examiner difficulty

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Timeline

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Grant rate from the first action

Share allowed, by months after the first office action

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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 1746.

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Prosecution paths

How prosecution actually unfolds

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Compared with peers

Against the art unit, the tech center and the USPTO

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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

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After a response

Which grounds this examiner withdraws

How often each ground is gone from the next action once it has been answered.

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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 1746.

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Interviews

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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

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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

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Trend

Allowance rate by filing year

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Appeals

What happens on appeal

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Landscape

Where Vishal I Patel sits in tech center 1700

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The record in depth

Every application, every decision, in view

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Applications

Every application examined

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
19152348FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN CYLINDER, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN CY…2025-07-30Pending00n/a
19276566APPARATUS INCLUDING A BONDING HEAD AND A METHOD OF USING THE SAME2025-07-22Pending00n/a
19273318SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PRESSURE ON SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE2025-07-18Pending00n/a
15755376Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15914609Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15496146Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15463632Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15877331Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15689948Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15877181Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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