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Examiner Dongming Wang

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 53 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2017
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
79%vs 64% weighted peer average+15 pts

Examiner Dongming Wang has allowed 42 of 53 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed42abandoned11pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2163 · 80%AU 2155 · 67%
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What the data says.

Examiner Dongming Wang maintains a public record spanning 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across dozens of decided applications, Wang's allowance rate stands at 79%, representing the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among those with final dispositions. This rate reflects the examiner's historical record on completed applications and does not project outcomes for any pending or future filing.

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How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates Wang's decisions across multiple art units, pooling data from different technology areas within TC 2100. The 79% allowance rate describes past decisions on applications with final outcomes and is a historical aggregate only. Pooled figures reflect patterns across all assigned work units and are not predictions about any individual application's disposition.

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 2163
50 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

80% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 64%
DISPOSITION40 / 10 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.9 moart unit avg 23.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40 moart unit avg 40.3 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 eligibility40%art unit 51%11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 77%+23 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness28%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW47%+47 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 35 decided applications with an interview and 15 without.

ART UNIT 2155
3 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

67% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION2 / 1 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.3 moart unit avg 27.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.5 moart unit avg 42.2 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 eligibility33%art unit 46%13 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 81%+19 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness33%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 3 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Dongming Wang

  • What is Examiner Wang's overall allowance rate?
    Wang's allowance rate is 79%, calculated from allowed and abandoned applications with final dispositions across all art units in the examiner's record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Wang's record spans 2 art units (2155 and 2163) within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the 79% figure represent?
    The 79% represents the share of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned, excluding pending) that received allowance. It describes the historical record and is not a prediction for any specific application.
  • How large is the data sample?
    The allowance rate is based on dozens of decided applications pooled across all the examiner's art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Dongming 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: 53 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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