Examiner William Wang

Grant ratio: 48.9% (26th percentile in Art Unit 2646 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.04. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: September 2018
Grant ratio 48.9%
Average office actions / grant 3.04
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91998
Primary art unit
2646
Work group
2640
Technology center
2600
Applications
47
Granted applications
23

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 54.6% 2.14
Group 226 57.7% 2.06
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.64 145 office actions across 55 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 55 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 13 23.6%
2 OAs 21 38.2%
3 OAs 7 12.7%
4 OAs 8 14.5%
5+ OAs 6 10.9%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 61.1% 2016 2017: 58.3% 2017 2018: 38.5% 2018

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2015400.0%
2016181161.1%
201712758.3%
201813538.5%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 55 0.0% 14.5% 85.5% 0.0%
Action 2 42 0.0% 4.8% 95.2% 0.0%
Action 3 21 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 14 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 145 office actions
Change N/A Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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