Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: HALES, BRIAN J

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2121 2125 2853

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.2%
Allow Rate
+9.2% vs TC avg
113
Total Applications
+31.1%
Interview Lift
1406
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 92 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

34.7%
§101 Eligibility
4.9%
§102 Novelty
32.9%
§103 Obviousness
26.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18524891 TEMPORAL QUANTUM FEATURE MAPS FOR KERNEL-BASED SEQUENTIAL DATA PREDICTION Non-Final OA Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
18577061 Method and Device for Generating Synthetic Training Data for an Ultrasonic Sensor Model Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18161620 MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
17735342 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17565400 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COGNITIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING Non-Final OA The Boeing Company
17964952 DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
18175378 METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES Final Rejection California Institute of Technology
17710728 GENERATING SYNTHETIC MICROSPY IMAGES OF MANUFACTURED DEVICES Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
17841577 ADAPTIVE TOKEN DEPTH ADJUSTMENT IN TRANSFORMER NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
17503067 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING DIMENSIONS OF DATA Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18503394 SUBDOMAIN-SPECIFIC GRAPH-BASED CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR LARGE DATA PREDICTION DOMAIN Non-Final OA Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
18141273 PRIVACY-SENSITIVE NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING USING DATA AUGMENTATION Final Rejection DeepMind Technologies Limited

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