Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Sidney Vincent Bostwick, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2124 2148 2164 2421 2445 2699 3662 4100

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Analysis

BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT examines applications in tech center 4100 and art unit 2124. The record contains 157 resolved cases, with a 51.6% allowance rate and a median of 1609 days to allowance. The 37.3% interview lift associates interview activity with a stronger allowance outcome in the measured cases.

Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Google LLC are the leading companies. The recurring firms are BERKELEY LAW & TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLP, AGORA LAW GROUP, PLLC, and Akona IP PC - Intel. The data supports giving interview preparation a meaningful role while accounting for a prosecution timeline that extends to the 1609-day median.

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

Performance Statistics

51.6%
Allow Rate
-8.4% vs TC avg
233
Total Applications
+37.3%
Interview Lift
1609
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 157 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

25.5%
§101 Eligibility
4.7%
§102 Novelty
44.6%
§103 Obviousness
25.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18692362 Server and Agent for Reporting of Computational Results during an Iterative Learning Process Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18171433 METHOD OF TRAINING BINARIZED NEURAL NETWORK WITH PARAMETERIZED WEIGHT CLIPPING AND MEMORY DEVICE USING THE SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18835869 Continuous Training of Machine Learning Models on Changing Data Non-Final OA Google LLC
17940568 Large-Scale Architecture Search in Graph Neural Networks via Synthetic Data Final Rejection Google LLC
18171035 NEURAL NETWORK VERIFICATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLERS Non-Final OA Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
17583053 A NEURAL NETWORK TILING METHOD BY A PROCESSOR Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18068987 EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ARCHITECTURES FOR TRAINING AND INFERENCE Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
17102776 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR SOUND EVENT CLASSIFICATION Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18812822 COMPUTE OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18148138 UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF EVIDENTIAL DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18050944 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK (DNN) ACCELERATOR FACILITATING ACTIVATION COMPRESSION Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18624754 SURVEILLANCE USING TRANSFER LEARNING OF A FEDERATED MODEL Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18335848 DATASET EXPLORATION PIPELINE USING CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE GRAPHS AND NEURAL GRAPHICAL MODELS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18310242 MATCHING BASED INTENT UNDERSTANDING WITH TRANSFER LEARNING Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17720212 SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION USING DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18077723 LEARNING LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION WITH LOGICAL INDUCTIVE BIAS Final Rejection TENCENT AMERICA LLC
17644372 TASK-DEPENDENT SELECTION OF DECODER-SIDE NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18476442 COMBINING MODEL OUTPUTS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18216772 ROBUST GRAPH REPRESENTATION OF CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS EXPRESSED IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENT Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17398673 PERFORMANCE-AWARE SIZE REDUCTION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
17557734 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT AND UPGRADING USING A NEURO-SYMBOLIC METAMODEL Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18680170 COMPRESSING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Sidney Vincent Bostwick's allowance rate?

51.6% of resolved applications examined by Sidney Vincent Bostwick were allowed (157 resolved cases), compared with 63.1% across Art Unit 2124 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Sidney Vincent Bostwick?

This examiner's interview lift is +37.3 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Sidney Vincent Bostwick take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Sidney Vincent Bostwick took 1,609 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Sidney Vincent Bostwick work in?

Sidney Vincent Bostwick examines applications in Art Unit 2124 in Tech Center 4100.

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