Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: HERSHLEY, MARK E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2155 2161 2162 2164

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

78.4%
Allow Rate
+23.4% vs TC avg
576
Total Applications
+19.0%
Interview Lift
1171
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 560 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

13.7%
§101 Eligibility
21.8%
§102 Novelty
48.4%
§103 Obviousness
7.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18792029 Method and Apparatus for Managing Data Integrity in a Distributed Storage Network Final Rejection Pure Storage, Inc.
18934877 MERGING GENERATIVE MODEL PROMPTS BASED ON CONTEXT Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18430599 DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
19329801 DATA DELETION SYSTEM AND METHOD Non-Final OA Palantir Technologies Inc.
19053208 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection LY Corporation
18596592 CONVERSATIONAL AND INTERACTIVE SEARCH USING MACHINE LEARNING BASED LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection Maplebear Inc.
18585250 METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL PROPAGATION IN TREE STRUCTURES AND DEVICES THEREOF Final Rejection NetApp, Inc.
18931650 INSTRUMENTATION AND METRICS COMBINING SEARCH ENGINE FOR OPTIMIZED OBSERVABILITY Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.

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