Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2136 2138 2186

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

74.6%
Allow Rate
+19.6% vs TC avg
526
Total Applications
+7.8%
Interview Lift
1088
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 496 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.8%
§101 Eligibility
21.6%
§102 Novelty
43.1%
§103 Obviousness
27.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18402350 VEHICLE WITH SELECTIVE DELETION OF VIDEO FRAGMENTS Non-Final OA Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
19130210 DATA ORGANIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS, AND SERVER AND MEDIUM Final Rejection Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
17577471 PROCESSING OF DATA STORED IN A MEMORY Non-Final OA Infineon Technologies AG
18069249 DISAGGREGATING A MEMORY SIDE CACHE DATA ARRAY AND CACHE CONTROLLER Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18781102 TRACKING LATCH UPSET EVENTS USING BLOCK STATUS DATA Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18781145 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING GEAR DOWN MODE Non-Final OA MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
18321535 HASH FILTER-BASED SELECTIVE-ROW REFRESH IN MEMORY DEVICE Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17997400 TRAINING USER AUTHENTICATION MODELS WITH FEDERATED LEARNING Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18890570 OPTIMIZING DATA SEGMENT STORAGE USING DIFFERENT PROGRAMMING MODES Final Rejection PURE STORAGE, INC.
18796328 LINK STATE CONTROL METHOD AND DATA STORAGE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Acer Incorporated
17845769 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED NEURAL-NETWORK CONVOLUTION AND TRAINING Final Rejection Rambus Inc.
18091329 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOSTING AN INTERLEAVE ACROSS ASYMMETRICALLY POPULATED MEMORY CHANNELS ACROSS TWO OR MORE DIFFERENT MEMORY TYPES Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18588475 IMPROVING SOFTWARE COMPRESSION EFFICIENCY FOR MEMORY-RESTRICTED DEVICES USING A SCRATCH BUFFER Non-Final OA Aurora Labs Ltd.
18911234 Multicore Processor Clock Distribution Using Asynchronous Wavefront Non-Final OA Tenstorrent USA, Inc.
18844394 MEMORY CARD READER EQUIPPED WITH DATA DELETION AND OPTIMIZATION FUNCTION Final Rejection CFTEK CORP.
18751088 Intelligent, Predictive Memory Management System and Method Non-Final OA MEXT Corporation
17781768 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF SOLVING A HAMILTONIAN Non-Final OA SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C.

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