Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: GOLAN, MATTHEW BRYCE

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2123 2126

This examiner grants 0% of resolved cases

Analysis

Matthew Bryce Golan is an examiner in Art Unit 2123 within Tech Center 2100 with 8 resolved cases. The data shows an allowance rate of 0.0%, meaning that none of the applications processed to a final resolution by this examiner have resulted in a patent grant. This percentage, while based on a small sample of 8 cases, indicates a very challenging environment where applicants have struggled to overcome rejections. Practitioners should be prepared for significant resistance and may need to consider aggressive prosecution strategies or appeals to move past the initial baseline.

The median days to allowance is 1378, although this figure is derived from a very limited number of outcomes. The interview lift is also 0.0%, suggesting that interviews have not yet proven effective at changing the examiner's position in the 8 cases resolved so far. Given the 1378-day timeline and the lack of successful grants, the data suggests a difficult and slow path forward. Practitioners should carefully evaluate the strength of their claims when facing this examiner in Art Unit 2123, as the current record shows a consistent pattern of abandonment rather than issuance.

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

Performance Statistics

0.0%
Allow Rate
-55.0% vs TC avg
43
Total Applications
+0.0%
Interview Lift
1378
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 8 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

25.5%
§101 Eligibility
6.0%
§102 Novelty
46.6%
§103 Obviousness
21.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18365719 BATTERY STATE-OF-HEALTH PREDICTION Final Rejection Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
18311883 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18173873 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM, EDGE DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18325374 FEDERATED LEARNING ADAPTIVE TO CAPABILITIES OF CONTRIBUTING DEVICES Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18720203 METHOD FOR TRAINING AN AUTONOMOUS AGENT USING A REINFORCEMENT LEARNING ALGORITHM, ASSOCIATED AUTONOMOUS AGENT Non-Final OA Orange
18066079 SMART SELECTION TO PRIORITIZE DATA COLLECTION AND ANNOTATION BASED ON CLINICAL METRICS Non-Final OA SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
17554048 STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS TO TRAIN A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
18838933 MINING AND VISUALIZING RELATED TOPICS IN A KNOWLEDGE BASE Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18125552 SPIKE NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18119494 Method, Apparatus for Determining Answer to Question, Device, Storage Medium and Program Product Non-Final OA Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
18020910 METHOD FOR TRAINING RANKING MODEL FOR INTELLIGENT RECOMMENDATION, AND INTELLIGENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD Final Rejection BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
17740497 ADAPTIVE SPARSE ATTENTION PATTERN Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
18116772 MONITORING OF EDGE- DEPLOYED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
17874605 QUANTUM COMPUTING NETWORK WITH PHYSICAL MESH SERVICE Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
18626081 GENERATIVE COUNTERFACTUAL EXPLANATIONS FROM HUMAN PREFERENCES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17822709 AUTOMATIC PROCESSING CHAIN GENERATION Final Rejection TDK CORPORATION
17566624 MODEL-AGNOSTIC INPUT TRANSFORMATION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
18076978 TRAINING CONDITIONAL COMPUTATION NEURAL NETWORKS USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Final Rejection DeepMind Technologies Limited

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