Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: HALE, BROOKS T

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2127 2166

This examiner grants 49% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

48.6%
Allow Rate
-6.4% vs TC avg
111
Total Applications
+31.4%
Interview Lift
1188
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 74 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.3%
§101 Eligibility
10.1%
§102 Novelty
61.3%
§103 Obviousness
3.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18226758 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING EMBEDDINGS Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
16917478 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND SEARCHING SCENARIO INFORMATION Final Rejection Lyft, Inc.
18340144 IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM, OPERATION METHOD OF IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
18659776 GUIDED CONTENT GENERATION USING PRE-EXISTING MEDIA ASSETS Final Rejection Google LLC
19103382 PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
19196767 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION AND RECLASSIFICATION OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA USING SIMILARITY-BASED SIGNATURES Non-Final OA Securiti, Inc.
18078566 LOW-CODE PROGRAMMING FOR ANALYTICS COMPUTING SYSTEM Final Rejection SAP SE
18078574 STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING OVERHEAD OF SNAPSHOT Final Rejection SK hynix Inc.
18078380 GENERATING AND PROCESSING DIGITAL ASSET INFORMATION CHAINS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Dell Products, L.P.
18466746 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A RISK OF PARTLY OVERRULED CONTENT BASED ON CITATIONALLY RELATED CONTENT Final Rejection Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
18625475 CONTACT CONFIGURATION INCLUDING EXTRACTED CONTEXT DATA Non-Final OA Motorola Mobility LLC
18749694 STAND-ALONE WEB BROWSER-BASED OR APP-BASED TREATMENT PLAN VIEWER Non-Final OA Hirsch Dynamics Holding AG
18605639 HIERARCHICAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION FOR IMPROVED INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL Final Rejection Vonix Systems, LLC
18056391 OBJECT-BASED DATA SCIENCE PLATFORM Non-Final OA Liveline Technologies Inc.

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