Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2144 2161 2168
This examiner grants 61% of resolved cases
Examiner Shirley D. Hicks serves in Tech Center 2100 and Art Unit 2100, having overseen 120 resolved cases. Her allowance rate of 60.8% provides a primary benchmark for practitioners evaluating the probability of a grant. This rate is paired with a median days to allowance of 1078, which establishes a clear expectation for the duration of the prosecution cycle from filing to issuance. These metrics offer a foundational view of her historical performance and the typical pace of her docket.
The most striking metric in this profile is the interview lift pct of 50.5%. This figure indicates that applications involving an interview see a much higher success rate than those without an interview. For attorneys, this suggests that direct engagement is a highly effective tool for resolving issues and advancing prosecution. The 120 resolved cases provide a sufficient sample size to suggest that this lift is a consistent feature of her practice. Navigating Art Unit 2100 with this examiner requires balancing the 1078 median days to allowance against the clear benefits of early and frequent communication to leverage the 50.5% lift.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19331172 | Adaptive Random Access System with Learned Query Optimization for Compacted Data Files | Final Rejection | AtomBeam Technologies Inc. |
| 18970803 | Assigning Weights to a Query's Context for an On-Device Model | Non-Final OA | Google LLC |
| 19268787 | DISCOVERY OF SOURCE RANGE PARTITIONING INFORMATION IN DATA EXTRACT JOB | Non-Final OA | Oracle International Corporation |
| 18839396 | HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION LEARNING OF USER INTEREST | Final Rejection | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC |
| 17950475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENTLY GENERATING A TITLE FOR A GROUP OF DOCUMENTS | Final Rejection | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC |
| 18927713 | GENERATING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT USING A GENERATIVE MODEL | Non-Final OA | Pinterest, Inc. |
| 18873637 | ELEMENT DRAWING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | DOUYIN VISION CO., LTD. |
| 17708977 | QUANTUM APPROXIMATION OPTIMIZER FOR DISTRIBUTED REGISTER VALIDATION | Final Rejection | BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION |
| 18724412 | OBJECT SEARCH VIA RE-RANKING | Non-Final OA | HANWHA VISION CO., LTD. |
| 18878628 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS OF BACKING UP DATA, AND NONVOLATILE COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | SUZHOU METABRAIN INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. |
| 18649571 | LOSSLESS COMPRESSION METHOD FOR MANAGING TELEMETRY DATA | Non-Final OA | Dell Products L.P. |
| 18491987 | MOTIF-BASED SUBGRAPH MATCHING IN PARTIALLY OBSERVED GRAPHS | Final Rejection | Dell Products L.P. |
| 18176149 | TECHNIQUES FOR THE EXECUTION OF WORKFLOWS ON UBER OBJECTS AND COMPACT REPRESENTATION IN STORAGE THEREOF | Final Rejection | Avalor Technologies, Ltd. |
| 19081951 | FOUNDATION MODEL PIPELINE FOR REAL-TIME EMBEDDED DEVICES | Final Rejection | SoftEye, Inc. |
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