Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HICKS, SHIRLEY D.

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2144 2161 2168

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.3%
Allow Rate
+8.3% vs TC avg
145
Total Applications
+54.2%
Interview Lift
1048
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 109 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0%
§101 Eligibility
25.5%
§102 Novelty
74.3%
§103 Obviousness
0.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
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.
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
17708977 QUANTUM APPROXIMATION OPTIMIZER FOR DISTRIBUTED REGISTER VALIDATION Non-Final OA BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
18612174 ANALYZING WEB PAGES TO FACILITATE AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION Final Rejection GOOGLE 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
18572097 WEB PAGE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Lemon 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
18470779 PROFILE MATCHING FILTERS Final Rejection PAYPAL, INC.
18115758 ERROR DEDUPLICATION AND REPORTING FOR A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF ERROR MESSAGES Non-Final OA Rubrik, Inc.
19081951 FOUNDATION MODEL PIPELINE FOR REAL-TIME EMBEDDED DEVICES Non-Final OA SoftEye, Inc.
18874860 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CROSS-SPECIES GENE AND GENE VARIANT RELATIONSHIPS Non-Final OA The Jackson Laboratory
18724412 OBJECT SEARCH VIA RE-RANKING Non-Final OA HANWHA VISION CO., LTD.
18176149 TECHNIQUES FOR THE EXECUTION OF WORKFLOWS ON UBER OBJECTS AND COMPACT REPRESENTATION IN STORAGE THEREOF Non-Final OA Avalor Technologies, Ltd.
18125047 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING DATA IN A BACK-UP APPLIANCE USING SHALLOW METADATA COPYING Final Rejection QUANTUM CORPORATION
18349939 REMOTE PREFETCH Final Rejection VAST DATA LTD.

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