Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: GIROUX, GEORGE

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2125 2128 2182 2183

This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases

Analysis

George Giroux is an examiner in Art Unit 2125 within Tech Center 2100. He has 620 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 65.3%. The median days to allowance is 1583. These figures indicate a moderate allowance rate but a significantly long prosecution timeline. The 65.3% allowance rate suggests that a majority of applications reach a grant, while the 1583-day median pendency requires a long-term strategy.

The interview lift is 27.2%, which is a strong indicator of the effectiveness of direct communication. This 27.2% lift suggests that interviews are a highly valuable tool for overcoming the challenges reflected in the 1583-day median pendency. Practitioners should prioritize interviews to move cases toward the 65.3% allowance rate more efficiently. With 620 cases resolved, these metrics provide a well-established profile of the examiner's performance. The 27.2% lift highlights the importance of verbal advocacy in navigating the lengthy prosecution process in Art Unit 2125.

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

Performance Statistics

65.3%
Allow Rate
+10.3% vs TC avg
648
Total Applications
+27.2%
Interview Lift
1583
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 620 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.8%
§101 Eligibility
15.0%
§102 Novelty
48.2%
§103 Obviousness
16.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18327667 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A TENSOR-TRAIN DECOMPOSITION OPERATION Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17900343 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSAL PURIFICATION OF INPUT PERTURBATION WITH DENOISED DIFFIUSION MODELS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17951889 Generative Models for Discrete Datasets Constrained by a Marginal Distribution Specification Final Rejection Google LLC
18543357 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18016636 FEDERATED LEARNING USING HETEROGENEOUS LABELS Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18548148 CLASS LABEL ESTIMATION APPARATUS, ERROR CAUSE ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17911866 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTING TO CHANGING RESOURCE LIMITATIONS Non-Final OA InterDigital CE Patent Holdings
18636212 Training a Student Model based on Agent-Generated Examples and Direct Application of Preferences Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18449341 SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION USING ENTANGLED QUBITS Final Rejection 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
18602139 INTELLIGENT PROMPT EVALUATION AND ENHANCEMENT FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING Non-Final OA Accenture Global Solutions Limited
17918264 DETERMINING THE FLUID DENSITY IN AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE Non-Final OA Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
17671100 CONTROL OF VEHICLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Final Rejection Ford Global Technologies, LLC
18375198 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ONLINE SELECTION OF NUMBER FORMATS FOR NETWORK PARAMETERS OF A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18622039 MANAGING INFERENCE MODELS IN VIEW OF ANOMALY CONDITIONS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17590920 UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION FOR LiDAR SEGMENTATION VIA ENHANCED PSEUDO-LABELING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Motional AD LLC

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