Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: KEATON, SHERROD L

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 1685 2142 2147 2148 2173 2175 2178 4100

This examiner grants 53% of resolved cases

Analysis

Sherrod L Keaton works in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 1685. He has managed 585 resolved cases. The allowance rate pct is 53.3. This 53.3 allowance rate pct provides a measure of the outcomes for applications on his docket. The 585 resolved cases serve as a basis for evaluating prosecution in Art Unit 1685.

The interview lift pct is 35.7. This 35.7 interview lift pct indicates the correlation between conducting an interview and the probability of an allowance. Practitioners can use the 35.7 figure when deciding whether to engage in verbal advocacy with the examiner. This metric is a component of the data for Tech Center 4100.

The median days to allowance is 1587. This 1587 median days to allowance represents the time required for an application to reach a grant. The 1587 figure is a timeline for the prosecution process from filing to resolution. These metrics provide a view of the examiner's history across the 585 resolved cases.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

53.3%
Allow Rate
-6.7% vs TC avg
607
Total Applications
+35.7%
Interview Lift
1587
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 585 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.8%
§101 Eligibility
11.1%
§102 Novelty
65.4%
§103 Obviousness
6.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18213624 MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES FORECASTER USING DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
18644334 METHOD FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18392089 System and Method for Multiple Concurrent Interactive Sessions Using Generative Artificial Intelligence Final Rejection Google LLC
17865662 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18812341 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMBEDDING DATA NETWORK GRAPH, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
18496287 COMMUNICATION NETWORK Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18211488 BACKPROPAGATION FOR DISCRETE VARIABLES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17643333 VISUALIZATION AND EDITING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18647650 LOCAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS AND USE THEREOF Non-Final OA SAP SE
18211804 Using Unsupervised Learning For User Specific Anomaly Detection Final Rejection Bank of America Corporation
18604680 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONDITION OF AN ENTITY VIA MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
18375398 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING CHANNEL EQUALISATION ON A CONVOLUTION LAYER IN A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
17532616 DEVICE FOR GENERATING A MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MODEL, MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MODEL SYSTEM FOR THE FORMALIZED APPLICATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE, PROCESS FOR GENERATING A MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MODEL, PROCESS FOR THE FORMALIZED APPLICATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Final Rejection Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
18563892 ANOMALY DETECTION FOR TABULAR DATA WITH INTERNAL CONTRASTIVE LEARNING Non-Final OA Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd.
17788128 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA ROBOMIND, INC.

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