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Examiner Wilson Lee

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 772 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
87%vs 57% weighted peer average+30 pts

Examiner Wilson Lee has allowed 669 of 772 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed669abandoned103pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (57%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2155 · 89%AU 2163 · 81%AU 2152 · 91%
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What the data says.

Wilson Lee has a pooled allowance rate of 87% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans three art units. The allowance rate—calculated as allowed applications divided by all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined)—reflects outcomes on applications that have reached final disposition. Allowance rates vary across his art units, ranging from 81% to 91%. This pooled figure aggregates those separate records and describes his historical performance without predicting outcomes on any pending or future application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines results across multiple art units into a single aggregate allowance rate. The 87% figure represents the examiner's overall decided-application history across all three units. This aggregate is a historical summary, not a forecast for any individual application. Patent prosecution outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, specification support, and examiner analysis—factors unique to each filing. Pooled data describes past patterns; it does not predict how any specific application will be examined.

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 2155
316 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

89% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION282 / 34 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.3 moart unit avg 27.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY35.2 moart unit avg 42.2 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 eligibility63%art unit 46%+17 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)79%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness60%art unit 81%21 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness35%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW87%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW90%-3 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 62 decided applications with an interview and 254 without.

ART UNIT 2163
272 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 64%
DISPOSITION220 / 52 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION27.1 moart unit avg 23.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44.2 moart unit avg 40.3 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 51%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)79%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness63%art unit 77%14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness33%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW79%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW81%-2 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 39 decided applications with an interview and 233 without.

ART UNIT 2152
184 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

91% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 49%
DISPOSITION167 / 17 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.4 moart unit avg 28.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32.1 moart unit avg 42.9 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 eligibility77%art unit 62%+15 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)48%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness73%art unit 88%15 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness27%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW89%+5 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 69 decided applications with an interview and 115 without.

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Questions about Examiner Wilson Lee

  • What is Wilson Lee's overall allowance rate?
    87% of his decided applications across all art units have been allowed. This figure covers hundreds of decided applications and excludes pending cases.
  • How many art units does Wilson Lee examine in?
    Three art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does his allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. His allowance rate ranges from 81% to 91% across the art units in which he maintains a substantial record. The 87% pooled figure is an aggregate of these separate rates.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. Historical allowance rates describe past decided applications. They are not predictions of any pending or future application. Prosecution outcomes depend on the specific claims, prior art, and examination record in each case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Wilson Lee 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: 772 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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