Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2142 2147 2148 2172 2174 2176 3629 4100

This examiner grants 39% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

38.9%
Allow Rate
-21.1% vs TC avg
259
Total Applications
+36.9%
Interview Lift
1532
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 216 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

15.3%
§101 Eligibility
12.7%
§102 Novelty
53.5%
§103 Obviousness
12.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18658815 CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HANDLING OF INTERRUPTIONS Final Rejection Apple Inc.
17615368 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17681864 GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, MOBILE OBJECT, GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
18521763 METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18520388 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA LABELING USING A HYBRID ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABELING APPROACH Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18391313 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESSURE GRADIENT PREDICTION IN OIL-WATER FLOWLINES EMPLOYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS Non-Final OA SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
18012408 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18159197 MULTIVARIATE OUTLIER DETECTION FOR DATA PRIVACY PROTECTION Final Rejection Siemens Healthineers AG
18688908 ESTIMATION APPARATUS, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18516937 Test Case Generation Through Reinforcement Learning With Static Code Quality Rewards Non-Final OA MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
18149348 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND DEPLOYING A NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Truist Bank
16888052 Optimized User Interface Delivery Final Rejection Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18558996 RADIO NETWORK CONTROL Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18115231 SPECIAL PURPOSE QUANTUM RESOURCES INTEGRATION Final Rejection SAP SE
18302084 STORAGE MEDIUM, ESTIMATION DEVICE, AND ESTIMATION METHOD Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17055996 FRAUD ESTIMATION SYSTEM, FRAUD ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Final Rejection RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
17465569 TRAINING A SENSING SYSTEM TO DETECT REAL-WORLD ENTITIES USING DIGITALLY STORED ENTITIES Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18401021 SAVING QUBITS BY OPTIMIZING ONE-HOT ENCODING GRANULARITY, RANGE, AND POINT DISTRIBUTION Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18148926 JOINT MACHINE LEARNING AND DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION WITH TIME SERIES DATA TO FORECAST OPTIMAL DECISION MAKING AND OUTCOMES OVER MULTIPLE PERIODS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17655523 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING WITH EMPHASIS ON FEATURE IMPORTANCE Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17475957 DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLED SENSOR DATA GENERATION PATTERN Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18493323 DATA-EFFICIENT TRANSFER LEARNING FOR NEURAL DECODING APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE CORPORATION
17362788 ANOMALY DETECTION OF FIRMWARE REVISIONS IN A NETWORK Non-Final OA Cox Communications, Inc.

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