Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: HICKS, SHIRLEY D.

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2144 2161 2168

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.1%
Allow Rate
+8.1% vs TC avg
155
Total Applications
+55.2%
Interview Lift
1053
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 111 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.0%
§101 Eligibility
25.6%
§102 Novelty
57.6%
§103 Obviousness
5.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19331172 Adaptive Random Access System with Learned Query Optimization for Compacted Data Files Final Rejection AtomBeam Technologies Inc.
18326146 Operator Interactions with a Runtime Process Control System Via Enhanced Smart Search Non-Final OA FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
18970803 Assigning Weights to a Query's Context for an On-Device Model Non-Final OA Google LLC
18612174 ANALYZING WEB PAGES TO FACILITATE AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18352795 BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
19025717 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTATION USING ENSEMBLE NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Walmart Apollo, LLC
18470779 PROFILE MATCHING FILTERS Final Rejection PAYPAL, INC.
19268787 DISCOVERY OF SOURCE RANGE PARTITIONING INFORMATION IN DATA EXTRACT JOB Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18634141 DEEP SEARCH USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17950475 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENTLY GENERATING A TITLE FOR A GROUP OF DOCUMENTS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17566206 DYNAMICALLY DECIDE DATA OPERATIONS BASED ON INFORMATION TYPE TO SATISFY BUSINESS USER NEED Final Rejection MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18901831 HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
17708977 QUANTUM APPROXIMATION OPTIMIZER FOR DISTRIBUTED REGISTER VALIDATION Final Rejection BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
18878628 METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS OF BACKING UP DATA, AND NONVOLATILE COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection SUZHOU METABRAIN INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18724412 OBJECT SEARCH VIA RE-RANKING Non-Final OA HANWHA VISION CO., LTD.
18910148 MANAGING REFERENCE COUNT INCREMENTS Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18649571 LOSSLESS COMPRESSION METHOD FOR MANAGING TELEMETRY DATA Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18491987 MOTIF-BASED SUBGRAPH MATCHING IN PARTIALLY OBSERVED GRAPHS Final Rejection 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.
18146146 PROMPTING DATA SESSION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18927713 GENERATING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT USING A GENERATIVE MODEL Non-Final OA Pinterest, Inc.
19039250 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Final Rejection The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
18781475 RECOMMENDATION BASED ON SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENT ITEMS Non-Final OA Roblox Corporation

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