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Examiner Albert C Wang

TECH CENTER 2100 · 4 ART UNITS · 855 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION SEP 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
85%vs 79% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Albert C Wang has allowed 730 of 855 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed730abandoned125pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (79%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2115 · 81%AU 2186 · 96%AU 2116 · 90%AU 2185 · 67%
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What the data says.

Albert C Wang maintains an 85% allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His public record spans four art units: 2115, 2116, 2185, and 2186. The allowance rate ranges from 81% to 96% across these art units, reflecting variation in outcomes within the examiner's pooled practice. This aggregate figure describes the historical distribution of allowed and abandoned applications and does not forecast outcomes in any individual case.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units into a single summary statistic. The overall allowance rate reflects past decisions across all art units combined and represents the share of decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's history. This aggregate figure is descriptive of the past record only and is not a prediction for any specific application or art unit.

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 →

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The record, art unit by 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 2115
573 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems, and electric power networks.

81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 81%
DISPOSITION466 / 107 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION27.3 moart unit avg 25.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.4 moart unit avg 36.3 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility27%art unit 33%6 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)48%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness63%art unit 83%20 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness37%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW80%+14 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 66 decided applications with an interview and 507 without.

ART UNIT 2186
198 APPS · 96% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

96% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION190 / 8 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.2 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY27.9 moart unit avg 35 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility21%art unit 32%11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)75%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness55%art unit 83%28 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness34%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW100%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW95%+5 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 24 decided applications with an interview and 174 without.

ART UNIT 2116
78 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems.

90% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 78%
DISPOSITION70 / 8 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION19.2 moart unit avg 24.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY27.8 moart unit avg 37.7 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility23%art unit 32%9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)48%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness72%art unit 83%11 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness53%no art-unit benchmark
ART UNIT 2185
6 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
67% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION4 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.9 moart unit avg 21.6 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY28.8 moart unit avg 36.3 mo
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Questions about Examiner Albert C Wang

  • What is Albert C Wang's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 85%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Albert C Wang's public record covers four art units: 2115, 2116, 2185, and 2186, all within TC 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    Allowance rates range from 81% to 96% across these art units, showing variation within his pooled record.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate mean for my application?
    The 85% figure describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction for any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Albert C Wang has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 14, 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: 855 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.

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