Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 2122 2125 2126 2127 2144 2146 2171 2663 3629

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

82.3%
Allow Rate
+30.3% vs TC avg
398
Total Applications
+22.7%
Interview Lift
1261
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 367 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.8%
§101 Eligibility
11.2%
§102 Novelty
37.4%
§103 Obviousness
17.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18519455 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTIZING NEURAL NETWORK MODEL Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18481932 XR EXPERIENCE BASED ON GENERATIVE MODEL OUTPUT Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18184791 METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED BASIS FUNCTIONS FOR DESCRIBING TRAJECTORIES Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18536317 REWARD CALCULATION DEVICE, REWARD CALCULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
17856227 Deformable Fractional Filters Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18562537 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18551483 GRAPH DATABASE TECHNIQUES FOR MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
18290194 COMPUTER SYSTEM AND INTERVENTION EFFECT PREDICTION METHOD Non-Final OA Hitachi, Ltd.
17950009 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18354093 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR JOINTLY PRUNING AND HARDWARE ACCELERATION OF PRE-TRAINED DEEP LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18380799 SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY DETECTION USING QUANTUM COMPUTER Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17115953 UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION USING JOINT LOSS AND MODEL PARAMETER SEARCH Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17087568 PROBABILISTIC NONLINEAR RELATIONSHIPS CROSS-MULTI TIME SERIES AND EXTERNAL FACTORS FOR IMPROVED MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES MODELING AND FORECASTING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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