Examiner Kavita Padmanabhan

Potentially inactive Last observed office action: December 2025 (5 months ago).

Examiner Kavita Padmanabhan appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 11.8%, they average 2.50 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.50

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 15 years (2011-2025)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2160 - Databases and File Management

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 17
Granted Applications: 2
Non-Granted Applications: 15
Avg OA / Grant: 2.50
Last OA Observed: December 2025 (5 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2161
Work Groups Seen: 2160 - Databases and File Management

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	11.8%	2.50
Art Unit	19	60.4%	2.52
Group	193	61.2%	2.52
Tech Center	1,706	55.9%	2.19
USPTO	16,116	54.8%	1.98

Grant Timeline

Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.

Year	Applications	Granted	Grant Rate
No observed data before 2011; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2011	7	0	0.0%
No observed data for 2012.
2013	1	0	0.0%
No observed data for 2014-2019.
2020	1	0	0.0%
2021	6	2	33.3%
No observed data for 2022-2024.
2025	2	0	0.0%
No observed data after 2025; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

2 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	13	0.0%	15.4%	84.6%	0.0%
2	13	0.0%	7.7%	92.3%	0.0%
3	7	0.0%	14.3%	85.7%	0.0%
4	5	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
5	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%