Examiner Albert Wong

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2023 (32 months ago).

Examiner Albert Wong appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 55.6%, they average 1.78 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Hard

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.78

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 16 years (2008-2023)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 3640 - Aeronautics, Agriculture, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, Licensing and Review

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 588
Granted Applications: 327
Non-Granted Applications: 261
Avg OA / Grant: 1.78
Last OA Observed: October 2023 (32 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2612 , 2683 , 2685 , 2689 , 3649
Work Groups Seen: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	55.6%	1.78
Art Unit	16	52.4%	1.96
Group	269	56.4%	1.75
Tech Center	1,729	59.3%	1.88
USPTO	16,116	54.8%	1.98

Grant Timeline

Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.

Year	Applications	Granted	Grant Rate
No observed data before 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	29	18	62.1%
2009	39	26	66.7%
2010	49	31	63.3%
2011	32	20	62.5%
2012	27	15	55.6%
2013	33	24	72.7%
2014	41	28	68.3%
2015	37	17	45.9%
2016	35	17	48.6%
2017	47	17	36.2%
2018	37	24	64.9%
2019	47	11	23.4%
2020	49	15	30.6%
2021	46	35	76.1%
2022	21	16	76.2%
2023	19	13	68.4%
No observed data after 2023; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

327 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	593	3.0%	2.9%	74.2%	14.8%
2	246	0.8%	1.2%	84.6%	8.5%
3	99	1.0%	0.0%	83.8%	8.1%
4	65	1.5%	0.0%	87.7%	9.2%
5	31	0.0%	0.0%	96.8%	0.0%
6	19	5.3%	0.0%	89.5%	5.3%
7	9	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	4	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

4.1%

2008

1.5%

2009

2.3%

2010

0.0%

2011

1.7%

2012

0.0%

2013

2.5%

2014

2.9%

2015

4.1%

2016

0.0%

2017

1.6%

2018

2.6%

2019

5.3%

2020

2.6%

2021

2.6%

2022

0.0%

2023

Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.