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Examiner Pei Yong Weng

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 699 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
82%vs 53% weighted peer average+29 pts

Examiner Pei Yong Weng has allowed 570 of 699 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed570abandoned129pending40· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (53%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2179 · 77%AU 2141 · 99%AU 2173 · 91%
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What the data says.

Pei Yong Weng maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning 3 art units. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 82%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that issued as allowed or were abandoned among all decided applications in the examiner's record. Allowance rates across the individual art units range from 77% to 99%, reflecting variation in the examiner's decisions within specific subject-matter groups. The pooled rate of 82% represents an aggregate across all art units and does not indicate the rate for any single art unit.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled examiner record aggregates data across multiple art units into a single profile. The allowance rate and statistics presented describe the examiner's historical record and are descriptive only—they are not predictions for any specific application. Art units within TC 2100 address distinct technical areas, and individual applications may encounter different allowance rates depending on the specific art unit handling the case. The range shown reflects observed variation in the historical record across those units.

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 2179
528 APPS · 77% ALLOWANCE
77% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION404 / 124 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.6 moart unit avg 26.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.4 moart unit avg 43.3 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 eligibility50%art unit 39%+11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)75%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness89%art unit 86%+3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness28%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW88%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW65%+23 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 269 decided applications with an interview and 259 without.

ART UNIT 2141
179 APPS · 99% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

99% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION137 / 2 / 40allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION27.1 moart unit avg 28.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.2 moart unit avg 47.1 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 eligibility54%art unit 50%+4 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)54%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness75%art unit 91%16 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness45%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW99%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW99%0 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 67 decided applications with an interview and 72 without.

ART UNIT 2173
32 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
91% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 49%
DISPOSITION29 / 3 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22 moart unit avg 25.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32.8 moart unit avg 40.1 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 eligibility34%art unit 39%5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)59%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 87%+6 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness45%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 32 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Pei Yong Weng

  • What is Pei Yong Weng's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 82% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 3 art units: 2141, 2173, and 2179.
  • Do allowance rates vary among the art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 77% to 99%, reflecting variation within different technical areas of TC 2100.
  • What does the pooled rate represent?
    The 82% pooled allowance rate aggregates decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across all 3 art units and represents the examiner's historical record, not a prediction for any individual application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Pei Yong Weng 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: 739 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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