Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2124 2164 2699

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.2%
Allow Rate
-9.8% vs TC avg
204
Total Applications
+38.2%
Interview Lift
1675
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 136 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

24.4%
§101 Eligibility
12.0%
§102 Novelty
40.9%
§103 Obviousness
21.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18305676 NON-LINEAR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL COST FUNCTION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFERENCE Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18171433 METHOD OF TRAINING BINARIZED NEURAL NETWORK WITH PARAMETERIZED WEIGHT CLIPPING AND MEMORY DEVICE USING THE SAME Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18087877 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DECOMPOSING A LAYER IN A NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18094251 Palettization of Kernel Vector in Neural Network Processor Final Rejection Apple Inc.
17938583 SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR EXECUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18310242 MATCHING BASED INTENT UNDERSTANDING WITH TRANSFER LEARNING Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17657112 SPARSITY MASKING METHODS FOR NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18011873 Meta-Learning Bi-Directional Gradient-Free Artificial Neural Networks Final Rejection Google LLC
17102830 TRANSACTION RESPONSE TIME ESTIMATION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17085173 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH A CONFIGURABLE NEUROMORPHIC NEURON APPARATUS FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17715768 Shuffled Secure Multiparty Deep Learning Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
17102776 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR SOUND EVENT CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17317633 TWO-STAGE DEEP LEARNING BASED SECURE PRECODER FOR INFORMATION AND ARTIFICIAL NOISE SIGNAL IN NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM Non-Final OA Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
17145876 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK AND TRAINING Non-Final OA Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
18301272 DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
19075941 Artificial Intelligence Deliberative Assembly (AIDA) Non-Final OA Aqfer, Inc.
19050038 ADVERSARIAL-ROBUST VECTOR QUANTIZED VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER WITH SECURE LATENT SPACE FOR TIME-SERIES DATA Non-Final OA AtomBeam Technologies Inc.
17957508 Selecting a Tiling Scheme for Processing Instances of Input Data Through a Neural Netwok Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
17382723 Multi-Level Time Series Forecaster Final Rejection Ciena Corporation
16931670 PREDICTIVE DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR CROSS-TEMPORAL ANOMALY DETECTION Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
18129165 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING QUANTIZABILITY OF A COMPUTATION GRAPH Non-Final OA APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG
18054073 SIGN-AWARE RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
17398673 PERFORMANCE-AWARE SIZE REDUCTION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
17405423 ACOUSTIC RESONANCE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR DETECTING STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION AND SYSTEM APPLYING THE SAME Non-Final OA INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
17032971 MAINTAINING PERSISTENT WEIGHTS IN TRAINING DURING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS PASSES Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
17500598 VECTOR ACTIVATION FUNCTION TO SUPPORT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AND OTHER PROCESSES Final Rejection MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
18199611 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-SUPPERVISED TIME-SERIES REPRESENTATION LEARNING Non-Final OA Royal Bank of Canada
17850691 PARAFINITARY NEURAL LEARNING Final Rejection University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
18171035 NEURAL NETWORK VERIFICATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLERS Final Rejection Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
18008237 BINARY NEURAL NETWORKS WITH GENERALIZED ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS Non-Final OA CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

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