Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2128 2147 2188

This examiner grants 40% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

40.2%
Allow Rate
-14.8% vs TC avg
234
Total Applications
+47.0%
Interview Lift
1453
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 199 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.7%
§101 Eligibility
8.3%
§102 Novelty
43.6%
§103 Obviousness
15.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17969545 Bottomhole Assembly Modeling Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17944818 DESIGNING SMART ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY FLUIDS Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17584095 WELL TESTING OPERATIONS USING AUTOMATED CHOKE CONTROL Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17835838 GENERATING AND ANALYZING MATERIAL STRUCTURES BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
18107587 STANDARDIZED RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES FOR GREEN FIELDS Non-Final OA Saudi Arabian Oil Company
17654632 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEISMIC VELOCITY AND ANISOTROPIC PARAMETER MODELING Final Rejection Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
17591252 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING RIGID BODY MOTIONS WITH CONTACTS AND COLLISIONS Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
17985274 AUTO GUIDE FOR FIRE PANEL CONFIGURATION Final Rejection Carrier Corporation
17651960 Micro-Level and Macro-Level Predictions in Sports Final Rejection STATS LLC
17707868 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING THE EVOLUTION OF SIMULATION RESULTS FOR AN INTERNET OF THINGS NETWORK Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
18011401 System and Method for Application-Dependent Selection of Batteries with Differentiable Programming Final Rejection CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
17881267 SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM Non-Final OA SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
18333769 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING GARMENTS ON TARGET BODY POSES Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18048566 AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF MISSING VALUE PATTERNS FOR DIGITAL TWIN RESILIENCE SUPPORT Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
17929580 AUTOMATED GENERATION OF FINITE ELEMENT MESHES FROM LASER SCANNED DATA Final Rejection Northeastern University
17538497 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFACING A TESTBENCH TO CIRCUIT SIMULATION Final Rejection Xilinx, Inc.
17944009 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLEANING OPTICAL ELEMENTS IN EUV OPTICAL SYSTEMS Final Rejection KLA Corporation

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