Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2121

This examiner grants 21% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

21.1%
Allow Rate
-33.9% vs TC avg
64
Total Applications
+28.4%
Interview Lift
1591
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 19 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

37.7%
§101 Eligibility
11.2%
§102 Novelty
40.4%
§103 Obviousness
9.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18247590 Method and Apparatus for Predicting Relevance Degree, and Method and Apparatus for Training Machine Leaning Module Non-Final OA BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
18249316 NEURAL NETWORK GENERATION DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK CONTROL METHOD, AND SOFTWARE GENERATION PROGRAM Non-Final OA MAXELL, LTD.
17426075 LOAD DISTRIBUTION FOR A DISTRIBUTED NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18249389 Machine-Learned Discretization Level Reduction Non-Final OA Google LLC
17673714 Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Neural Quality Metrics Non-Final OA Google LLC
17162649 ANCHOR WINDOW SIZE AND POSITION SELECTION IN TIME SERIES REPRESENTATION LEARNING Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17465343 Multi-Phase Training Techniques for Machine Learning Models Using Weighted Training Data Final Rejection PayPal, Inc.
17570542 DATA DRIVEN RECOGNITION OF ANOMALIES AND CONTINUATION OF SENSOR DATA Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17742236 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDUCTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR ATTRIBUTED NETWORKS Final Rejection ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
17719617 SUPER-FEATURES FOR EXPLAINABILITY WITH PERTURBATION-BASED APPROACHES Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17201646 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING MACHINE-LEARNING PROGRAM, MACHINE-LEARNING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
17147643 PREDICTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING AN IMAGE SEARCH Non-Final OA Alibaba Group Holding Limited
17808910 UTILIZING SELECTIVE TRANSFORMATION AND REPLACEMENT WITH HIGH-DIMENSIONALITY PROJECTION LAYERS TO IMPLEMENT NEURAL NETWORKS IN TABULAR DATA ENVIRONMENTS Final Rejection Chime Financial, Inc.
17877256 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MODEL GENERATION METHOD Final Rejection YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
17316168 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE COMPUTER-TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO CORRECT COMPUTER-GENERATED ERRORS IN AUDIENCE DATA Non-Final OA The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
18249162 Method and Apparatus for Weight-Sharing Neural Network with Stochastic Architectures Non-Final OA Tsinghua University
18247646 EDGE-MASKING GUIDED NODE PRUNING Non-Final OA Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
18083593 DATA PREDICTING METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection Wistron Corporation
17806900 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ATTACK IN CAN BUS Final Rejection Autocrypt Co., Ltd.
17471121 LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Actapio, Inc.
17236625 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND ACCUMULATORS MAP-BASED PIPELINE FOR WORKLOAD PLACEMENT Final Rejection EMC IP Holding Company LLC

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