Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: HASTY, NICHOLAS

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2141 2173 2178

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Analysis

Nicholas Hasty is an examiner in Tech Center 2100, assigned to Art Unit 2141. He has handled 352 resolved cases, and his allowance rate is 51.7 percent. This rate indicates the balance between allowed and abandoned cases in his docket. The 352 resolved cases offer a basis for analyzing his prosecution style. The 51.7 percent rate serves as a baseline for practitioner expectations.

The interview lift for Hasty is 32.2 percent, which is a positive delta. This lift suggests that interviews are an effective tool for overcoming rejections relative to the 51.7 percent baseline. Direct communication appears to be a way to resolve issues in his docket. The median time to allowance is 1635 days, which is a duration for successful cases. Practitioners should be prepared for the 1635 days timeline and use the 32.2 percent lift to potentially resolve issues more efficiently in Art Unit 2141. These figures are key for planning.

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

Performance Statistics

51.7%
Allow Rate
-3.3% vs TC avg
382
Total Applications
+32.2%
Interview Lift
1635
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 352 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.6%
§101 Eligibility
14.5%
§102 Novelty
70.1%
§103 Obviousness
1.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17681237 PREDICTING OCCURRENCES OF TARGETED CLASSES OF EVENTS USING TRAINED ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES Non-Final OA The Toronto-Dominion Bank
16917588 ELECTRONIC DATA PLATFORM FOR A TESTING ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
17880339 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
17680984 MACHINE LEARNING APPARATUS, ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS, AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18378250 MEETING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MEETING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MEETING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Non-Final OA SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17449298 OUT-OF-DOMAIN DETECTION FOR IMPROVED AI PERFORMANCE Final Rejection SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
18671148 MACHINE LEARNING BASED APPROACH FOR TARGETED ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON LATENT RELATIONSHIPS AMONG USER FEATURES AND ITEMS OF DIFFERENT TYPES Non-Final OA INTUIT INC.
18458704 DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM Final Rejection BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
17295347 METHOD AND MACHINE LEARNING MANAGER FOR HANDLING PREDICTION OF SERVICE CHARACTERISTICS Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18099799 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR DATA TRANSFER RISK IDENTIFICATION AND RELATED METHODS Non-Final OA OneTrust, LLC
17114436 USING A DEEP LEARNING BASED SURROGATE MODEL IN A SIMULATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18501745 GENERATING ALTERNATIVE EXAMPLES FOR CONTENT Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18623782 AUTOMATIC METADATA GENERATION DURING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18627203 ON-DEVICE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA T-Mobile Innovations LLC
18483287 WORKSPACE MANAGEMENT FOR IMPROVED MODEL Final Rejection Optum, Inc.
18499830 DYNAMIC PERSONA ASSIGNMENT FOR OPTIMIZATION OF NEAR END AND EDGE DEVICES Non-Final OA DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
18762756 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA SHARE REQUESTS Non-Final OA Synchrony Bank

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