Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2125 2127 2146

This examiner grants 83% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

82.6%
Allow Rate
+27.6% vs TC avg
387
Total Applications
+23.4%
Interview Lift
1254
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 363 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.0%
§101 Eligibility
6.6%
§102 Novelty
64.9%
§103 Obviousness
3.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18248435 QUANTUM COMPUTING DEVICE FOR DETECTING GROUPS OF INTERCONNECTED NODES IN A NETWORK Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18298257 PREDICTED FORECAST OFFSET FROM REMOTE LOCATION SENSOR Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18260645 Training Pipeline for Training Machine-Learned User Interface Customization Models Non-Final OA Google LLC
18070388 GENERATING LOW-DISTORTION, IN-DISTRIBUTION NEIGHBORHOOD SAMPLES OF AN INSTANCE OF A DATASET USING A VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER Final Rejection 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
17856227 Deformable Fractional Filters Final Rejection Intel Corporation
19213687 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ROBUST MULTIMEDIA RECOMMENDATION BASED ON INFORMATION BOTTLENECK Final Rejection Anhui Wuyou Technology Co., Ltd.
18184791 METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED BASIS FUNCTIONS FOR DESCRIBING TRAJECTORIES Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18298816 MODEL GRADIENT DETERMINING METHODS, APPARATUSES, DEVICES, AND MEDIA BASED ON FEDERATED LEARNING Non-Final OA Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
18354093 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR JOINTLY PRUNING AND HARDWARE ACCELERATION OF PRE-TRAINED DEEP LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
17950009 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
17459644 DETERMINING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18330930 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR EXPLAINABLE COLLABORATIVE AND COMPETITIVE PROBLEM SOLVING Non-Final OA GLENEAGLE INNOVATIONS LP

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