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Last updated: October 27, 2026

Wilbert L Starks, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as STARKS, WILBERT L

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2122 2129 3791

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Analysis

STARKS, WILBERT L works in USPTO Technology Center 3700, Art Unit 2122. The record includes 668 resolved cases, an allowance rate of 74.7%, and a median of 1250 days to allowance. Interview lift is 3.3%, indicating little associated improvement compared with the profile’s allowance measure.

The leading companies are International Business Machines Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Google LLC. The leading firms are Harrity & Harrity, LLP, AMPACC Law Group, PLLC, and BERKELEY LAW & TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLP. Practitioners can rely on the substantial case volume for historical context, while preparing for a lengthy median prosecution period.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

74.7%
Allow Rate
+4.7% vs TC avg
731
Total Applications
+3.3%
Interview Lift
1250
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 668 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

33.9%
§101 Eligibility
39.8%
§102 Novelty
14.7%
§103 Obviousness
6.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17468819 METHOD OF PREDICTING SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND METHOD OF TESTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17877139 Cloud Based Early Warning Drift Detection Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
17356186 UNSUPERVISED METHOD FOR BASELINING AND ANOMALY DETECTION IN TIME-SERIES DATA FOR ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18118061 CONDITIONING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS ON GRAPH AFFINITY MEASURE FEATURES Final Rejection Google LLC
18109340 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18702382 System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Denoising Sequential Machine Learning Models Non-Final OA Visa International Service Association
18327763 REASONING WITH CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE GRAPHS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17190832 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL NETWORK CODE GENERATION Final Rejection SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
17508117 INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM DOCUMENT CORPORA Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17449116 DYNAMICALLY GENERATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18163603 LARGE SCALE MASK OPTIMIZATION WITH CONVOLUTIONAL FOURIER NEURAL OPERATOR AND LITHO-GUIDED SELF LEARNING Final Rejection NVIDIA Corp.
18757832 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEARNNING LANGUAGE MODEL FROM STYLISTIC POINT OF VIEW, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE SAME Non-Final OA Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
18102798 RULES DETERMINATION VIA KNOWLEDGE GRAPH Non-Final OA SAP SE
17590677 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERING INFORMATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
18760765 Systems and Methods for Culturally-Informed Content Moderation Non-Final OA Spotify AB

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Wilbert L Starks's allowance rate?

74.7% of resolved applications examined by Wilbert L Starks were allowed (668 resolved cases), compared with 31.6% across Art Unit 2122 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Wilbert L Starks?

This examiner's interview lift is +3.3 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Wilbert L Starks take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Wilbert L Starks took 1,250 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Wilbert L Starks work in?

Wilbert L Starks examines applications in Art Unit 2122 in Tech Center 3700 (Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering).

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