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Examiner Weiwei Ye Stiltner

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 261 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
74%vs 65% art-unit average+9 pts
higher than about 57% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Weiwei Ye Stiltner has allowed 194 of 261 decided applications.

194 allowed
67 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Weiwei Ye Stiltner's public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 74%. This rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), with pending applications excluded from the calculation. The figure represents the examiner's historical record and describes past outcomes only.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across the examiner's art unit(s) and describes the overall allowance rate from past decided applications. The 74% figure is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled statistics describe patterns in the examiner's past record; individual cases vary based on application-specific facts, claims, and evidence presented during prosecution.

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.1 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 2451
261 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

74%
higher than about 57% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition261 decided applications

194 allowed
67 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.1mo
disposed 37mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 43.5 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 43
51%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
29%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
46%

Interview benefit

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

without
58%
+33 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 128 decided applications with an interview and 133 without.

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Questions about Examiner Weiwei Ye Stiltner

  • What is Weiwei Ye Stiltner's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 74% across hundreds of decided applications, representing the share of applications allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the public record.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Weiwei Ye Stiltner's public record covers one art unit within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes the examiner's past record and is not a prediction for any individual application. Prosecution outcomes depend on claim language, prior art, evidence, and arguments specific to each case.
  • What technology does this examiner examine?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2400, as shown in the public record. Subject-matter details appear in the technology-center descriptor provided by the USPTO.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Weiwei Ye Stiltner 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: 261 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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