Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2192

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

78.4%
Allow Rate
+23.4% vs TC avg
364
Total Applications
+58.3%
Interview Lift
970
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 342 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.9%
§101 Eligibility
14.8%
§102 Novelty
48.1%
§103 Obviousness
17.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18357358 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR VERIFYING AT LEAST ONE SOFTWARE COMPONENT OF AN AUTOMATED DRIVING FUNCTION Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18226004 Orchestrating Parallel Rollouts of Independent Aspects of Production Assets Non-Final OA Google LLC
18470675 GENERATING A TEST SUITE FOR AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
19405375 SYSTEM FOR, AND METHOD OF, PROVIDING AN ABSOLUTE ZERO-CODE APPLICATION COMPOSITION PLATFORM Non-Final OA UCBOS, Inc.
18770230 Read, Write, And Array Tracking In Code Representations Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18657412 Incrementally Validating Security Policy Code Using Information From An Infrastructure As Code Repository Final Rejection Salesforce, Inc.
18904249 INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED TEST CASE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
17698032 Branch-History Mode Trace Encoder Final Rejection SiFive, Inc.
18160492 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PODS HOSTED BY VIRTUAL MACHINES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18398388 VALIDATING CODE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USING ABSTRACT SYNTAX TREES Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18531910 DYNAMIC CTD MODEL TRACKING AND OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18891192 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING SELECTION OF CONTROL SET Non-Final OA FMR LLC

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