Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2124 2148 2164 2421 2445 2699 2857 3662 4100

This examiner grants 51% of resolved cases

Analysis

Sidney Vincent Bostwick operates in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2124, with 152 resolved cases. His allowance rate of 51.3% indicates a balanced outcome for applications in his docket. However, the interview lift of 35.1% is very high, suggesting that interviews are an exceptionally effective tool for securing an allowance. This 35.1% lift is a standout metric for practitioners to consider. The median days to allowance is 1615, which is the timeframe for the prosecution process.

With 152 resolved cases, the data offers a clear view of his examination trends. The 51.3% allowance rate suggests that a portion of his cases reach a grant. The interview lift is a powerful tactical option. The 1615-day median provides a clear benchmark for pendency. This information from Art Unit 2124 underscores the importance of direct communication as a primary method for achieving a favorable outcome in his docket and managing the long time to grant.

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

Performance Statistics

51.3%
Allow Rate
-8.7% vs TC avg
216
Total Applications
+35.1%
Interview Lift
1615
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 152 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

24.6%
§101 Eligibility
4.6%
§102 Novelty
46.5%
§103 Obviousness
24.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18421475 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING PREDICTIVE MODEL PREDICTING PRODUCT FAILURE Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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.
19363681 Persistent Cognitive Machine with Temporally Synchronized Multimodal Processing and Typed Latent Entity Management Non-Final OA AtomBeam Technologies Inc.
18171035 NEURAL NETWORK VERIFICATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLERS Non-Final OA Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
18135043 ABSTRACTING COMPUTER-BASED INTERACTION(S) FOR AUTOMATION OF TASK(S) Final Rejection X Development LLC
18087877 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DECOMPOSING A LAYER IN A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17583053 A NEURAL NETWORK TILING METHOD BY A PROCESSOR Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES 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
17102776 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR SOUND EVENT CLASSIFICATION Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
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
18692362 Server and Agent for Reporting of Computational Results during an Iterative Learning Process Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
17644372 TASK-DEPENDENT SELECTION OF DECODER-SIDE NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
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
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
18624754 SURVEILLANCE USING TRANSFER LEARNING OF A FEDERATED MODEL Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
17557734 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT AND UPGRADING USING A NEURO-SYMBOLIC METAMODEL Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18511164 SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE SYSTEMS IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK USING AI Non-Final OA BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
17500598 VECTOR ACTIVATION FUNCTION TO SUPPORT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AND OTHER PROCESSES Non-Final OA MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
18679429 TRANSACTION FAILURE CAUSE DETECTION AND ALERTING FOR WIRELESS NETWORK TRANSACTIONS Non-Final OA AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
18334271 METHOD FOR OPERATING NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
17817142 SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR DEFINING A SEARCH SPACE FOR NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING DEVICE ARCHITECTURES Final Rejection Arm Limited
18008298 Method for generating a decision support system and associated systems Non-Final OA UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY
17566259 SUPER NEURONS WITH NON-LOCALIZED KERNEL OPERATIONS Final Rejection QATAR UNIVERSITY

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