Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HERSHLEY, MARK E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2155 2161 2162 2164

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

78.2%
Allow Rate
+23.2% vs TC avg
572
Total Applications
+18.8%
Interview Lift
1172
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 554 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.9%
§101 Eligibility
12.8%
§102 Novelty
80.3%
§103 Obviousness
1.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18931650 INSTRUMENTATION AND METRICS COMBINING SEARCH ENGINE FOR OPTIMIZED OBSERVABILITY Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
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
18792029 Method and Apparatus for Managing Data Integrity in a Distributed Storage Network Non-Final OA Pure Storage, 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 Non-Final OA ModeSens Inc.

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