Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: ALLEN, NICHOLAS E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2154 2167

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.7%
Allow Rate
+20.7% vs TC avg
832
Total Applications
+14.5%
Interview Lift
1097
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 775 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.1%
§101 Eligibility
16.2%
§102 Novelty
53.9%
§103 Obviousness
3.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19304803 STORAGE DEVICE COMMUNICATING BACKGROUND OPERATION INFORMATION AND OPERATING METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17868361 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH DATA LOADING Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18871398 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
19052809 Automatic Generation of Training and Testing Data for Machine-Learning Models Non-Final OA Google LLC
18377662 SURFACING USER-SPECIFIC DATA RECORDS IN SEARCH Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
17662547 Independent Fragment Compactions of Striped Data Non-Final OA Google LLC
19042984 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HYBRID CONTRACT EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT Final Rejection Docusign, Inc.
18780266 SCALABLE RANGE LOCKS Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17861634 AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SEASONAL PATTERN INSTANCES AND CORRESPONDING PARAMETERS IN MULTI-SEASONAL TIME SERIES Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
19363287 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED SYSTEM FOR REPLICATING FORMATTED FINANCIAL DOCUMENT Non-Final OA Auquan Ltd
18790909 AGGREGATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA BASED ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS Non-Final OA SAP SE
17499678 MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS FOR PREDICTING DATABASE SIZE Final Rejection SAP SE
18745847 STRUCTURED CLUSTER EXECUTION FOR DATA STREAMS Non-Final OA Databricks, Inc.
18973498 System and Method for Autonomous Gearshift Deduplication in an Storage System Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18403153 SERIALIZABLE DIRECTORY ITERATOR Non-Final OA Dell Products, L.P.
18498216 ENHANCED ROLL-BACK FROM A RETENTION LOCKED NAMESPACE Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18619453 ADVANCED DATA COLLECTION BLOCK IDENTIFICATION Final Rejection OXYLABS, UAB
17651551 GENERATION OF DESIRED DATA FOR EVALUATION OF AT LEAST A PORTION OF A SYSTEM Final Rejection UncommonX Inc.

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