Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: COULSON, JESSE CHEN

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2141

This examiner grants 25% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

25.0%
Allow Rate
-30.0% vs TC avg
37
Total Applications
+100.0%
Interview Lift
1197
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 4 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.6%
§101 Eligibility
22.6%
§102 Novelty
29.8%
§103 Obviousness
17.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17942744 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NEURAL NETWORK MODULE FOR PERFORMING NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION BASED ON MODEL METADATA AND CONTROL DATA Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18215979 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CUMULATIVE OPTIMAL GLOBAL MINIMA ERROR FOR A SYSTEM USING COMPOSITE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELING Non-Final OA BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
18317898 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS BASED ON FEATURE VALIDITY Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17749701 DEEP ANGULAR SIMILARITY LEARNING Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17893241 LAYER FREEZING & DATA SIEVING FOR SPARSE TRAINING Non-Final OA SNAP INC.
17808927 GLOBAL CONTEXT EXPLAINERS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEMS USING MULTIVARIATE TIMESERIES DATA Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18204069 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MACHINE LEARNING WITH A LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY ACCELERATOR Non-Final OA STMicroelectronics International N.V.
18069431 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DETERMINATION PROGRAM, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18078504 PRUNING HARDWARE UNIT FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
18318411 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR TRAINING AND USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS IN SPARSE DATA ENVIRONMENTS USING TRANSFORMED DATA SETS Non-Final OA Honeywell International Inc.
18016470 FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION
17812910 ACTIVE LEARNING FOR HIGH-COST TRAJECTORY COLLECTION FOR MOBILE EDGE DEVICES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18006175 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17772098 LEARNING APPARATUS, CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17972837 COUNTERFACTUAL BACKGROUND GENERATOR Final Rejection Red Hat, Inc.
18029992 CONSTRAINED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMS USING PARETO FRONT OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
18178576 METHOD FOR THE SECURE USE OF A FIRST NEURAL NETWORK ON AN INPUT DATUM Non-Final OA IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
18088482 NEURAL PROCESSING CELL Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON

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