Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: FIGUEROA, KEVIN W

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2124 2148

This examiner grants 70% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

69.6%
Allow Rate
+14.6% vs TC avg
382
Total Applications
+21.0%
Interview Lift
1460
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 362 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

24.4%
§101 Eligibility
9.1%
§102 Novelty
52.0%
§103 Obviousness
7.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18060284 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17376302 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE OF PROCESSOR Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18195630 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST ANNOTATION OF DATASET WITH CONSTRAINT PROPAGATION Non-Final OA JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
18010095 INFERENCE APPARATUS, INFERENCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18133607 AUTOMATED GENERATION OF TRAINING DATA FOR AN ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE BASED INCIDENT RESOLUTION SYSTEM Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17545573 FEDERATED MACHINE LEARNING BASED ON PARTIALLY SECURED SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18258523 IMPROVED DISTRIBUTED TRAINING OF GRAPH-EMBEDDING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Orange
18074915 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED MULTI-MODEL JOINT REASONING Non-Final OA Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
17537168 GENERATING ANSWERS TO MULTI-HOP CONSTRAINT-BASED QUESTIONS FROM KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Non-Final OA Accenture Global Solutions Limited
17196825 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING PHYSICAL QUANTITIES OF A PLURALITY OF MODELS USING A SAMPLING DEVICE Final Rejection 1QB INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC.
17383289 Machine Learning Portfolio Simulating and Optimizing Apparatuses, Methods and Systems Final Rejection FMR LLC

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