Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: HALES, BRIAN J

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2125

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.4%
Allow Rate
+22.4% vs TC avg
106
Total Applications
+32.0%
Interview Lift
1475
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 84 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

36.2%
§101 Eligibility
5.1%
§102 Novelty
30.6%
§103 Obviousness
26.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18175378 METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES Non-Final OA California Institute of Technology
17964952 DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM Non-Final OA Hitachi, Ltd.
18247562 NOISE LEARNING-BASED DENOISING AUTOENCODER Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18365818 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED REWARD SHAPING Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17565400 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COGNITIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING Final Rejection The Boeing Company
17456750 CONTINUOUS KNOWLEDGE GRAPH FOR LINKS AND WEIGHT PREDICTIONS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17503067 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING DIMENSIONS OF DATA Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18141273 PRIVACY-SENSITIVE NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING USING DATA AUGMENTATION Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
18300632 DUAL-MODEL MACHINE LEARNING FOR PROCESS CONTROL AND RULES CONTROLLER FOR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT Non-Final OA Liveline Technologies Inc.
18148257 SPARSE CODING IN A DUAL MEMORY SYSTEM FOR LIFELONG LEARNING Non-Final OA NavInfo Europe B.V.
18114426 SHARING AI-CHAT BOT CONTEXT Non-Final OA Olive Independent Study, Inc.

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