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Examiner Ben C Wang

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 486 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
83%vs 66% art-unit average+17 pts

Examiner Ben C Wang has allowed 404 of 486 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed404abandoned82pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Ben C Wang's public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spans one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate is 83%, meaning that of all applications with a final disposition (allowed or abandoned), 83% were allowed. This rate reflects the examiner's pooled historical record and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application. The record aggregates applications across all art units under the examiner's purview.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across all art units where the examiner has decided applications. The allowance rate represents historical outcomes on applications with final dispositions—allowed or abandoned—and describes past performance only. Aggregate figures do not predict outcomes on any specific application, as individual case circumstances vary. A pooled record reflects combined activity across different subject areas and cannot be disaggregated by art unit in this summary.

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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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 2192
486 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines software engineering.

83% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION404 / 82 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.8 moart unit avg 29.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.8 moart unit avg 45.1 mo
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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 eligibility50%art unit 45%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)73%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 81%+14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness24%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW95%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW66%+29 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 284 decided applications with an interview and 202 without.

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Questions about Examiner Ben C Wang

  • What is Ben C Wang's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 83% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications with final dispositions (allowed or abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Ben C Wang's public record spans one art unit (Art Unit 2192) within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the allowance rate mean for my application?
    The allowance rate describes historical outcomes and does not predict the outcome of any specific application. Individual applications are examined on their own merits and facts.
  • Does this examiner handle multiple technology areas?
    The examiner's record is pooled within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The aggregate record combines activity across all art units where applications have been decided.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ben 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: 486 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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