Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: BALAKRISHNAN, VIJAY MURALI

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2143 2148

This examiner grants 41% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

40.9%
Allow Rate
-14.1% vs TC avg
44
Total Applications
+75.0%
Interview Lift
1428
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 22 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

27.4%
§101 Eligibility
12.2%
§102 Novelty
34.8%
§103 Obviousness
25.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17582873 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING FEDERATED LEARNING USING HARDWARE SECURE ARCHITECTURE AND FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD USING THE SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17942992 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL BY COUPLING ONE FEATURE EXTRACTOR TO A PLURALITY OF PREDICTORS, TRAINING MODEL, AND EXTRACTING FEATURE EXTRACTOR WITHOUT PREDICTORS AS TRAINED MODEL OPERABLE FOR INFERENCE, AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREON FOR SAME Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
17996533 ERROR-SECURED INFERENCE CALCULATION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
17910756 CROSS-EXAMPLE SOFTMAX AND/OR CROSS-EXAMPLE NEGATIVE MINING Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
17162970 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING RELEVANT INFORMATION FROM AN UNSTRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE BASE Non-Final OA Walmart Apollo, LLC
18524614 LEVERAGING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS, COMMUNITY DETECTION, AND TREE-BASED MODELS FOR TRANSACTION CLASSIFICATIONS Non-Final OA PayPal, Inc.
17949710 NEURAL GRAPHICAL MODELS FOR GENERIC DATA TYPES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17530068 BOTCASTS - AI BASED PERSONALIZED PODCASTS Non-Final OA MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18052092 System and Method for Training of neural Network Model for Control of High Dimensional Physical Systems Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
18477359 TRAINING AND TUNING OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR GENERATING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC PREDICTIONS Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
18069771 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR CROSS-DOMAIN TEXT CLASSIFICATION Final Rejection Optum, Inc.
18603381 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PARTNERSHIP OPTIMIZATION AND STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP ALIGNMENT Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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