Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: KHAN, SHAHID K

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2146 2175 2178 4100

This examiner grants 74% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

74.4%
Allow Rate
+14.4% vs TC avg
429
Total Applications
+15.0%
Interview Lift
1058
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 403 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.9%
§101 Eligibility
14.5%
§102 Novelty
56.7%
§103 Obviousness
17.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18664448 AUTOMATED DOCUMENT PROCESSING Final Rejection American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
18104506 CIRCULAR-BUFFER FOR GENERATING MACHINE LEARNING ESTIMATES OF STREAMING OBSERVATIONS IN REAL TIME Final Rejection ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
18477761 SELF-SUPERVISED PRETRAINING OF DOCUMENT INFORMATION EXTRACTION MODELS WITH INFORMATIVE WORD MASKING Non-Final OA SAP SE
17394842 SELECTING TRAINING DATA FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18306048 CONTENT VELOCITY AND HYPER-PERSONALIZATION USING GENERATIVE AI Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18388596 HIGH-FIDELITY SYNTHETIC METRICS DATA Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17980360 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING DOCUMENT RELATIONSHIPS AND AGGREGATES Non-Final OA Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
18242654 METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT DEFER EDGE-WEIGHT CALCULATION AND GRAPH COMPLETION PRIOR TO, AND DURING, OPTIMAL-GRAPH-TRAVERSAL DETERMINATION Non-Final OA VMware LLC
18517987 ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE STATUS ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD Non-Final OA INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY

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