Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: CHEN, ALAN S

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2100 2124 2125 2129 2172 2182 4100

This examiner grants 91% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

91.2%
Allow Rate
+31.2% vs TC avg
1,165
Total Applications
+6.3%
Interview Lift
1003
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1142 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

13.1%
§101 Eligibility
37.2%
§102 Novelty
21.9%
§103 Obviousness
20.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17712132 PREDICTING TARGETED REDEMPTION EVENTS USING TRAINED ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES Final Rejection The Toronto-Dominion Bank
18159759 DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
18532392 Generation of Video for a Location Via a Generative Machine-Learned Model Non-Final OA Google LLC
18321370 DATA MODEL GENERATION USING GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18220761 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT MATCHING AND SUBSTITUTION Non-Final OA Walmart Apollo, LLC
18440453 GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK WITH POINTED DIRECTIONAL MESSAGE PASSING Non-Final OA PAYPAL, INC.
18640373 Placing Content In Compatible Metaverse Environments Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18578406 System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Segmentation Using Knowledge Transfer Based Machine Learning Techniques Non-Final OA Visa International Service Association
18487923 EXTRACTING ACTIONABLE SELF-EXPLANATIONS FROM VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER LATENT SPACE IN USER AND ENTITY BEHAVIOR ANOMALY DETECTION Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18494141 TIME-SERIES FORECASTING AND MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18124055 CALIBRATION PROCEDURE FOR ON-CHIP NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18090223 QUANTUM FOURIER TRANSFORMATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation
18367155 QUANTUM COMPUTING-ENHANCED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LARGE-SCALE CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA Cornell University
18188888 GENERATING AND IDENTIFYING FUNCTIONAL SUBNETWORKS WITHIN STRUCTURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL)

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