Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2161 2166

This examiner grants 80% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

79.5%
Allow Rate
+24.5% vs TC avg
303
Total Applications
+11.0%
Interview Lift
926
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 259 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

8.2%
§101 Eligibility
18.5%
§102 Novelty
62.6%
§103 Obviousness
8.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19065789 CRAWL ALGORITHM Final Rejection Google LLC
18860315 REFINING OUTPUTS OF GENERATIVE MODELS Non-Final OA Google LLC
19039705 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY CATEGORIZE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AND RECOMMEND SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS Final Rejection Adeia Guides Inc.
18925239 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING AND OPTIMIZING SECURITY SYSTEMS Non-Final OA The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
18806669 In-Memory Result Set Rebalancing For Distributed Graph Queries Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18746644 JOIN ELIMINATION Final Rejection Snowflake Inc.
18649458 GENERATING AND USING A SEMANTIC INDEX Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18332672 UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) EMBEDDINGS FOR ALIGNING PARALLEL DOCUMENTS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
19254967 Document Management Non-Final OA ServiceNow, Inc.
18885407 DATA PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
19052386 PROCESSING DUPLICATE INSTANCES OF A SAME COLUMN EXPRESSION BY MEMORY REFERENCE WHEN EXECUTING A QUERY VIA A DATABASE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Ocient Holdings LLC
18852168 RETRIEVAL, MODEL-DRIVEN, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-ENABLED SEARCH Final Rejection HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
18757686 METHOD FOR DATABASE MIGRATION Non-Final OA Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
18973302 EFFICIENTLY HANDLING EXPIRED MESSAGES IN MIDDLEWARE OF MESSAGING SYSTEMS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17817804 DIRECT ACCESS METHOD OF BYPASSING PARTITION OVERHEAD IN MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING (MPP) ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18572325 GRAPH DATABASE PROCESSING Final Rejection Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
18679386 COLLABORATIVE GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION Non-Final OA QOMPLX LLC
19100357 Data Acquisition Method and Apparatus, and Device Non-Final OA DIGITAL CURRENCY INSTITUTE, THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA
18771552 CACHING PATTERN FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL INTERFACE Non-Final OA Insight Direct USA, Inc.
18687633 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection RENAULT S.A.S.

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