Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: HEADLY, MELISSA A

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2196 2197 2199

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.0%
Allow Rate
+20.0% vs TC avg
432
Total Applications
+40.4%
Interview Lift
1300
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 408 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.5%
§101 Eligibility
6.7%
§102 Novelty
58.1%
§103 Obviousness
15.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18075322 VIRTUAL MACHINE LIVE MIGRATION WITH DIRECT-ATTACHED NON-VOLATILE MEMORY EXPRESS DEVICE Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18476876 WORKLOAD MERGING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18177831 Storage Assignment Using Application Storage Requirements Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18065241 HARDWARE ASSISTED EFFICIENT MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS WITH REMOTE MEMORY ACCESSES Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17560231 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE-BASED EDGE COMPUTING Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18499528 METHOD FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR APPLICATIONS AND/OR APPLICATION CONTAINERS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM OF HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTE NODES Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18176340 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF MANAGING HYPERVISOR EFFICIENCY AND UPTIME Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
18145999 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING NEW DATA FOR USE BY AN APPLICATION IN RESPONSE TO A FORK OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE Non-Final OA RED HAT, INC.
18044079 JOB CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
18473774 SCHEDULING EXECUTION OF COMMANDS IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICE BASED ON COMMAND PARAMETERS Non-Final OA Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
18530722 Task-Based Distributional Semantic Model or Embeddings for Inferring Intent Similarity Non-Final OA Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc.
18233117 CONTAINER SCHEDULING AND DEPLOYMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DOMAIN CONTROLLER SYSTEM Non-Final OA Black Sesame Technologies (Chongqing) Co., Ltd.
17403627 APPLICATION-BASED DYNAMIC HETEROGENEOUS MANY-CORE SYSTEMS AND METHODS Final Rejection Altera Corporation

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