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Last updated: October 27, 2026

George Giroux, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as GIROUX, GEORGE

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2125 2128 2182 2183

This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases

Analysis

GIROUX, GEORGE is assigned to Technology Center 2100 and Art Unit 2125. Across 622 resolved cases, the allowance rate is 65.4%, and the median time to allowance is 1582 days. The interview lift is 27.3%, indicating a meaningful positive association between interviews and allowance outcomes.

The principal companies are International Business Machines Corporation, Google LLC, and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The leading firms are Harrity & Harrity, LLP, CHIP LAW GROUP, and CPST Intellectual Property Inc. The record supports combining active interview planning with detailed written treatment of claim scope and cited art. The extended median timeline should inform client expectations and continuation decisions. The company affiliations point to computing and electronics matters where technical architecture may need to be explained with precision.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

65.4%
Allow Rate
+10.4% vs TC avg
655
Total Applications
+27.3%
Interview Lift
1582
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 622 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.9%
§101 Eligibility
15.1%
§102 Novelty
48.0%
§103 Obviousness
16.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18016636 FEDERATED LEARNING USING HETEROGENEOUS LABELS Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18113794 ELECTRONIC DEVICE PERFORMING SIMULATION OF TARGET ROW REFRESH LOGIC OF DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY AND OPERATING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18850443 A DEVICE AND A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS-TIME INTERACTION MODELING OF AGENTS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18701867 EFFICIENTLY PERFORMING INFERENCE COMPUTATIONS OF A FULLY CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK FOR INPUTS WITH DIFFERENT SIZES Non-Final OA Google LLC
17951889 Generative Models for Discrete Datasets Constrained by a Marginal Distribution Specification Final Rejection Google LLC
18327667 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A TENSOR-TRAIN DECOMPOSITION OPERATION Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17648415 CROSS-DOMAIN ADAPTIVE LEARNING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18543357 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18548148 CLASS LABEL ESTIMATION APPARATUS, ERROR CAUSE ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18636212 Training a Student Model based on Agent-Generated Examples and Direct Application of Preferences Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17911866 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTING TO CHANGING RESOURCE LIMITATIONS Non-Final OA InterDigital CE Patent Holdings
18449341 SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION USING ENTANGLED QUBITS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18173648 TRAINING ARIMA TIME-SERIES MODELS UNDER FULLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION USING APPROXIMATING POLYNOMIALS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17942454 VARIATIONAL METHOD OF MAXIMIZING CONDITIONAL EVIDENCE FOR LATENT VARIABLE MODELS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17699222 COGNITIVE ADVISORY AGENT Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18622039 MANAGING INFERENCE MODELS IN VIEW OF ANOMALY CONDITIONS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner George Giroux's allowance rate?

65.4% of resolved applications examined by George Giroux were allowed (622 resolved cases), compared with 56.9% across Art Unit 2125 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner George Giroux?

This examiner's interview lift is +27.3 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner George Giroux take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by George Giroux took 1,582 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner George Giroux work in?

George Giroux examines applications in Art Unit 2125 in Tech Center 2100 (Computing & Software).

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