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Last updated: October 26, 2026

Pursottam Giri, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as GIRI, PURSOTTAM

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2116 2128 2147 2186 2188 3772

This examiner grants 20% of resolved cases

Analysis

GIRI, PURSOTTAM works in Technology Center 3700 and Art Unit 2116. The record covers 142 resolved cases, with an allowance rate of 19.7% and a median of 1521 days to allowance. The interview lift is 11.6%, indicating a positive but limited association between interviews and allowance outcomes.

The principal companies are Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, International Business Machines Corporation, and Halliburton Energy Services Inc. The leading firms are Blueshift IP LLC, FisherBroyles, LLP - Align Technology, Inc., and Fortem IP LLP. The outcome pattern supports early development of claim strategy, detailed treatment of cited art, and realistic timing expectations. Interviews may help clarify technical issues, but the allowance rate indicates that practitioners should not rely on interview use alone. The affiliations span industrial, computing, and energy technologies.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

19.7%
Allow Rate
-50.3% vs TC avg
192
Total Applications
+11.6%
Interview Lift
1521
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 142 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

35.5%
§101 Eligibility
9.4%
§102 Novelty
42.7%
§103 Obviousness
11.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17245985 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A PERORATION SCHEMA WITH A STAGE OPTIMIZATION TOOL Non-Final OA HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
17897493 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MONITORING METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMALITY OF MONITORING TARGET Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17874936 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING AN ANTENNA ARRAY TO SUPPRESS SIDE-LOBE POWER Final Rejection Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
17795486 SPATIAL DESIGN SYSTEM, SPATIAL DESIGN METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18320634 PREDICTION OF VEHICLE COMBINATION DRAG AREA INCLUDING CROSSWIND SENSITIVITY Non-Final OA VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
18077181 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN ADAPTIVE POWER SYSTEM STABILIZER (PSS) Final Rejection General Electric Company
18311553 METHOD TO IMAGE SMALL-SCALE VARIABILITY OF SUBSURFACE RESERVOIRS Non-Final OA KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
17783342 TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA Non-Final OA SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH
18253701 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATION OF EXPLODED VIEWS OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN MODELS Non-Final OA Siemens Industry Software Inc.
17890805 GENERATION OF CFD-BASED STRUCTURALLY INDEPENDENT AERODYNAMIC INFLUENCE COEFFICIENT MATRIX Non-Final OA Siemens Industry Software Inc.
18320246 DIGITAL TWIN ANALYSIS FOR FIXTURE DESIGN BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17651088 ANALYZING SOUND WAVE PROPAGATION IN AN AQUATIC MEDIUM Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17582299 DYNAMIC HOSTING CAPACITY ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PLANNING Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
18274181 GENERATING SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS FOR TESTING AV BEHAVIOUR Non-Final OA FIVE AI LIMITED

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Pursottam Giri's allowance rate?

19.7% of resolved applications examined by Pursottam Giri were allowed (142 resolved cases), compared with 70.1% across Art Unit 2116 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Pursottam Giri?

This examiner's interview lift is +11.6 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Pursottam Giri take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Pursottam Giri took 1,521 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Pursottam Giri work in?

Pursottam Giri examines applications in Art Unit 2116 in Tech Center 3700 (Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering).

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