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Examiner Hannah S Wang

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 129 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
59%vs 69% weighted peer average10 pts

Examiner Hannah S Wang has allowed 76 of 129 decided applications.

76 allowed
53 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (69%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2454 · 58%AU 2456 · 80%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Hannah S Wang maintains a public record across 2 art units within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications in her pooled record, her allowance rate stands at 59%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) across her art units. The allowance rate reflects the historical outcome distribution in her decided caseload and does not characterize her examination approach or predict outcomes in any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates results from multiple art units, creating a single overall allowance rate. The aggregate figure describes past decisions on hundreds of applications and reflects the combined outcome distribution across all the examiner's assigned art units. Pooled statistics do not break down performance by individual art unit and are descriptive of historical record only—they are not predictions of how any future application will be examined or decided.

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 →

The record, art unit by art unit.2 art units

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 2454
124 APPS · 58% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

58%
higher than about 26% of the 57 examiners with published rates in art unit 2454
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 57 examiners with published rates in art unit 2454; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 58 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 57 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition124 decided applications

72 allowed
52 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.8mo
disposed 39.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.8 mo, disposed 40.6 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 41
75%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
99%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
91%

Interview benefit

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

without
9%
+60 pts
with
69%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 102 decided applications with an interview and 22 without.

ART UNIT 2456
5 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 71% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2456
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2456; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition5 decided applications

4 allowed
1 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.3mo
disposed 53.2mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 42.4 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 42
60%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
100%

Based on 5 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Hannah S Wang

  • What is Hannah S Wang's overall allowance rate?
    Her allowance rate is 59%, based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across all her art units. This is the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in her record.
  • How many art units does she work in?
    Hannah S Wang's public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate tell me?
    The pooled rate is a historical summary of outcomes across her assigned art units combined. It describes what happened in past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • Does a 59% allowance rate mean my application will or will not be allowed?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a descriptive statistic of past decisions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application is examined individually.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hannah S Wang has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 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: 129 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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