Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2121 2147

This examiner grants 28% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

27.6%
Allow Rate
-27.4% vs TC avg
68
Total Applications
+15.7%
Interview Lift
1623
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 29 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

37.8%
§101 Eligibility
10.2%
§102 Novelty
42.0%
§103 Obviousness
9.5%
§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 Final Rejection BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
18434027 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONTEXT-BASED METHOD LABELING UNOBSERVED ENTITIES IN SEQUENTIAL DATA Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17395845 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18509119 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17164685 TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION LEVEL SELECTION IN FEDERATED LEARNING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17465343 Multi-Phase Training Techniques for Machine Learning Models Using Weighted Training Data Final Rejection PayPal, Inc.
17212359 EVALUATING DEVICE, PLANT CONTROL ASSIST SYSTEM, EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
17719617 SUPER-FEATURES FOR EXPLAINABILITY WITH PERTURBATION-BASED APPROACHES Final Rejection Oracle International 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
17762479 MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE Non-Final OA Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
17742236 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDUCTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR ATTRIBUTED NETWORKS Final Rejection ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
17868263 Methods, Devices, and Systems for Sanitizing a Neural Network to Remove Potential Malicious Data Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
18249162 Method and Apparatus for Weight-Sharing Neural Network with Stochastic Architectures Final Rejection Tsinghua University
17676576 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZED DATA PRIORITIZATION Non-Final OA Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
17115857 DATA-DRIVEN NEURAL NETWORK MODEL COMPRESSION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18083593 DATA PREDICTING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Wistron Corporation
17877256 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MODEL GENERATION METHOD Final Rejection YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION

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