Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: WOOD, WILLIAM C

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2193 2194 2198

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Analysis

Examiner William C. Wood works in Art Unit 2193 within Tech Center 2100. The examiner has 367 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 74.7%. This rate reflects the proportion of applications reaching a final disposition that result in a patent grant. The median days to allowance is 1033, which is the recorded timeframe for the prosecution history. Practitioners can note this 1033 figure when setting expectations for the duration of the process. The 367 resolved cases provide the data for these observations.

The interview lift for this examiner is 21.0%. This figure indicates the change in the probability of allowance when an interview is conducted. With the 21.0% lift and the 74.7% allowance rate, practitioners can evaluate the impact of direct communication on their strategy. These metrics are the available data for this docket in Art Unit 2193. The recorded data points provide the basis for understanding the prosecution environment under this examiner. This analysis relies on the specific figures provided for this profile.

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

Performance Statistics

74.7%
Allow Rate
+19.7% vs TC avg
387
Total Applications
+21.0%
Interview Lift
1033
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 367 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.4%
§101 Eligibility
6.1%
§102 Novelty
67.5%
§103 Obviousness
12.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18090653 ACCELERATOR OR ACCELERATED FUNCTIONS AS A SERVICE USING NETWORKED PROCESSING UNITS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17990796 Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Grading an API Specification Non-Final OA Visa International Service Association
18622779 SCALABLE REDUNDANCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Non-Final OA MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18475510 Log Storage System with Improved Utilization of Storage Space Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18116750 MESSAGE-BASED MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS REPRESENTING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES Final Rejection SAP SE
17743330 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO COMPRESS DATA Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18908323 STORAGE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
18141074 Information Management System Router Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
18830314 MULTI BOT ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING Non-Final OA Synchrony Bank
18080563 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VIRTUAL OBJECT STORE Non-Final OA Nutanix, Inc.
17508326 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND PREDICTING VIRTUAL CPU RESOURCE STARVATION OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE Final Rejection Citrix Systems, Inc.

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