Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: GARNER, CASEY R

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2123 2124 2189 2194 4100

This examiner grants 71% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

71.3%
Allow Rate
+11.3% vs TC avg
287
Total Applications
+16.1%
Interview Lift
1326
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 272 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

26.8%
§101 Eligibility
8.0%
§102 Novelty
50.2%
§103 Obviousness
12.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18127528 PROCESSING OF ASYMMETRICALLY QUANTIZED INPUT AND KERNEL COEFFICIENTS IN NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSOR Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17644179 DEVICE AND METHOD TO IMPROVE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18512592 MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD Non-Final OA Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
18312584 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO RE-PARAMETERIZE MULTIPLE HEAD NETWORKS OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18198037 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18415578 STATE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, STATE CLASSIFICATION DEVICE, AND STATE CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM Non-Final OA SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
18000693 DATA PROGRAMMING METHOD FOR SUPPORTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM Final Rejection NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
18109283 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND THERMAL ANALYSIS DEVICE Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18069822 MODAL INFORMATION COMPLETION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE Non-Final OA Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
18410272 METHOD FOR TRAINING DEEP LEARNING MODEL USING SELF-KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION ALGORITHM, INFERRING APPARATUS USING DEEP LEARNING MODEL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS TO PERFORM METHOD FOR TRAINING DEEP LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
18318204 TRAINING AND APPLYING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR PREDICTING POLYMER EXTRUDATE MELT PROPERTY VALUES Final Rejection Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
18405069 CLASSICAL-QUANTUM HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING HIGHER-ORDER MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18140130 IMPUTING MISSING VALUES IN A DATASET IN THE PRESENCE OF DATA QUALITY DISPARITY Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation

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