Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: HERSHLEY, MARK E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2155 2161 2162 2164

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

78.3%
Allow Rate
+23.3% vs TC avg
570
Total Applications
+18.5%
Interview Lift
1248
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 552 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.8%
§101 Eligibility
22.9%
§102 Novelty
45.5%
§103 Obviousness
8.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19220720 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING SPLITS OF RELATED DATA IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE Non-Final OA Google LLC
19053208 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA LY Corporation
19204056 PERFORMING DISTRIBUTED JOINS USING COMPUTE EXPRESS LINK (CXL) IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Actian Corporation
18792029 Method and Apparatus for Managing Data Integrity in a Distributed Storage Network Non-Final OA Pure Storage, Inc.
18942065 QUERY BASED DYNAMIC PARTITION ALLOCATION Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18931650 INSTRUMENTATION AND METRICS COMBINING SEARCH ENGINE FOR OPTIMIZED OBSERVABILITY Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18571868 DATA QUERY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SECURE MULTI-PARTY DATABASE Final Rejection Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
19069486 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MONITORING AND OPTIMIZING ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM USING NON-PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IN LOGS Non-Final OA Glean Technologies, Inc.
18999873 MULTIFACETED REFORMULATIONS FOR NULL AND LOW QUERIES Non-Final OA eBay Inc.
18753174 RETRIEVAL OF CONTENT USING LINK-BASED SEARCH Final Rejection ModeSens Inc.
17634478 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND/OR VISUALIZATION METHOD Final Rejection UNIVERSITÄT BERN

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