Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2121 2147

This examiner grants 28% of resolved cases

Analysis

BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER handles cases in Tech Center 2100 and Art Unit 2121. The record shows 32 resolved cases with an allowance rate of 28.1%. The median days to allowance is 1633. These statistics offer a view into the examiner's resolution patterns.

The interview lift is 15.3%. This figure shows the relationship between interviews and the 28.1% allowance rate. Practitioners can use the 15.3% lift to assess the probability of an allowance. The 32 resolved cases provide the context for these metrics.

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

Performance Statistics

28.1%
Allow Rate
-26.9% vs TC avg
68
Total Applications
+15.3%
Interview Lift
1633
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 32 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

36.6%
§101 Eligibility
9.9%
§102 Novelty
44.3%
§103 Obviousness
8.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18296165 APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH ACCELERATING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17988739 STRUCTURED SPARSE MEMORY HIERARCHY FOR DEEP LEARNING Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18247590 Method and Apparatus for Predicting Relevance Degree, and Method and Apparatus for Training Machine Leaning Module Final Rejection BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
17395845 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18249389 Machine-Learned Discretization Level Reduction Final Rejection Google LLC
17164685 TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION LEVEL SELECTION IN FEDERATED LEARNING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17212359 EVALUATING DEVICE, PLANT CONTROL ASSIST SYSTEM, EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
18263807 METHOD, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND DATA CARRIER SIGNAL Non-Final OA VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
17426075 LOAD DISTRIBUTION FOR A DISTRIBUTED NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18838192 PERSONALIZED MACHINE LEARNING ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES Non-Final OA The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
17742236 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDUCTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR ATTRIBUTED NETWORKS Final Rejection ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
18061529 SEMI-SUPERVISED SIMILARITY-BASED CLUSTERING IN RESOURCE EVALUATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17685350 ADVERSARIAL DATA GENERATION FOR VIRTUAL SETTINGS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17480012 GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK (GNN) TRAINING USING META-PATH NEIGHBOR SAMPLING AND CONTRASTIVE LEARNING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17115857 DATA-DRIVEN NEURAL NETWORK MODEL COMPRESSION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17877256 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MODEL GENERATION METHOD Non-Final OA YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
18249162 Method and Apparatus for Weight-Sharing Neural Network with Stochastic Architectures Final Rejection Tsinghua University
18083593 DATA PREDICTING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Wistron Corporation
18750724 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENSURING INTEGRITY OF QUANTUM COMPUTER Non-Final OA Korea University Research and Business Foundation
18247646 EDGE-MASKING GUIDED NODE PRUNING Final Rejection Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
16512647 Analyzing Performance of Models Trained with Varying Constraints Final Rejection Aible Inc.
17471121 LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Actapio, Inc.

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