Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2124 2164 2421 2699

This examiner grants 51% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

51.4%
Allow Rate
-10.6% vs TC avg
207
Total Applications
+38.0%
Interview Lift
1622
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 138 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.5%
§101 Eligibility
1.4%
§102 Novelty
93.4%
§103 Obviousness
2.6%
§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 Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
19050038 ADVERSARIAL-ROBUST VECTOR QUANTIZED VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER WITH SECURE LATENT SPACE FOR TIME-SERIES DATA Non-Final OA AtomBeam Technologies Inc.
18133031 Implementation Aspects Of Predictive Residual Encoding In Neural Networks Compression Final Rejection Nokia Technologies Oy
17936321 RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK Non-Final OA Synaptics Incorporated
17583053 A NEURAL NETWORK TILING METHOD BY A PROCESSOR Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18094251 Palettization of Kernel Vector in Neural Network Processor Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18335848 DATASET EXPLORATION PIPELINE USING CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE GRAPHS AND NEURAL GRAPHICAL MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18310242 MATCHING BASED INTENT UNDERSTANDING WITH TRANSFER LEARNING Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17938583 SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR EXECUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18011873 Meta-Learning Bi-Directional Gradient-Free Artificial Neural Networks Final Rejection Google LLC
17350227 GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION FOR RULE INDUCTION FROM KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS 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
18050944 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK (DNN) ACCELERATOR FACILITATING ACTIVATION COMPRESSION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17715768 Shuffled Secure Multiparty Deep Learning Final Rejection Micron Technology, Inc.
18068987 EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ARCHITECTURES FOR TRAINING AND INFERENCE Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18483056 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHAINING DISCRETE MODELS Non-Final OA Palantir Technologies Inc.
17145876 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK AND TRAINING Non-Final OA Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
17957891 DOMAIN-BASED LEARNING FOR AUTOENCODER MODELS Final Rejection SAP SE
18008237 BINARY NEURAL NETWORKS WITH GENERALIZED ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS Non-Final OA CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
19075941 Artificial Intelligence Deliberative Assembly (AIDA) Non-Final OA Aqfer, Inc.
17957508 Selecting a Tiling Scheme for Processing Instances of Input Data Through a Neural Netwok Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
18065068 HIGH-RESOLUTION IC NET ROUTING SYSTEM, COMPONENTS AND METHODS WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
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
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
17032971 MAINTAINING PERSISTENT WEIGHTS IN TRAINING DURING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS PASSES Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

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