Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: HICKS, SHIRLEY D.

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2144 2161 2168

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

64.5%
Allow Rate
+9.5% vs TC avg
145
Total Applications
+56.3%
Interview Lift
1180
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 107 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.7%
§101 Eligibility
24.2%
§102 Novelty
51.1%
§103 Obviousness
12.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17708977 QUANTUM APPROXIMATION OPTIMIZER FOR DISTRIBUTED REGISTER VALIDATION Non-Final OA BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
18420152 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZATION OF INGESTED DATABASE ENTRIES TO DETERMINE TOPIC FREQUENCY Non-Final OA Walmart Apollo, LLC
18878628 METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS OF BACKING UP DATA, AND NONVOLATILE COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA SUZHOU METABRAIN INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
17574481 CENTRALIZED ON-DEVICE IMAGE SEARCH Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18839396 HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION LEARNING OF USER INTEREST Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17566206 DYNAMICALLY DECIDE DATA OPERATIONS BASED ON INFORMATION TYPE TO SATISFY BUSINESS USER NEED Final Rejection MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18146146 PROMPTING DATA SESSION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18065722 DATA REPLICATION IN ACTIVE-ACTIVE DATABASES Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18470779 PROFILE MATCHING FILTERS Final Rejection PAYPAL, INC.
18654899 System and Method for Aggregation, Organization, Branding, Gamification, Automated Fair Use and Digital Rights of Image, Video and Digital Rights That Provides a Measure of Popular Final Rejection POPOLOGY MEGAVERSE LLC
18084610 COMPUTING RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION ENGINE BASED ON CONTEXTUAL LINKAGE IN A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH Final Rejection AMADEUS S.A.S.
19081951 FOUNDATION MODEL PIPELINE FOR REAL-TIME EMBEDDED DEVICES Non-Final OA SoftEye, Inc.
18649571 LOSSLESS COMPRESSION METHOD FOR MANAGING TELEMETRY DATA Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18148095 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY TAG FILE SYSTEM ASSETS IN PPDM WITH THE MOST OPTIMAL BACKUP MECHANISM FOR CASES WHERE FILE SYSTEMS ARE MOUNTED ON STORAGE VOLUMES FROM A STORAGE ARRAY Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18874860 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CROSS-SPECIES GENE AND GENE VARIANT RELATIONSHIPS Non-Final OA The Jackson Laboratory
18125047 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING DATA IN A BACK-UP APPLIANCE USING SHALLOW METADATA COPYING Final Rejection QUANTUM CORPORATION
18326146 Operator Interactions with a Runtime Process Control System Via Enhanced Smart Search Non-Final OA FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
18176149 TECHNIQUES FOR THE EXECUTION OF WORKFLOWS ON UBER OBJECTS AND COMPACT REPRESENTATION IN STORAGE THEREOF Non-Final OA Avalor Technologies, Ltd.
17545641 Method of Providing User Profile and Apparatus Therefor Final Rejection Hyperconnect LLC
18349939 REMOTE PREFETCH Final Rejection VAST DATA LTD.
17589710 MEDIA CLASSIFICATION AND IDENTIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Audible Magic Corporation

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