Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: KIM, PAUL

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2152 2156 2166 2169 2614 2654 2695

This examiner grants 73% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

73.2%
Allow Rate
+11.2% vs TC avg
1,127
Total Applications
+19.9%
Interview Lift
1346
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1103 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.8%
§101 Eligibility
23.1%
§102 Novelty
49.1%
§103 Obviousness
7.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18805980 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING DATA RECORD CREATION AT A THIRD PARTY SERVER Non-Final OA The Toronto-Dominion Bank
19281637 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR HIERARCHICAL AGGREGATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
19256835 METHOD OF MANAGING DYNAMIC DATABASE FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED SERVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18808522 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING NOISE CANCELLING FUNCTION OF WIRELESS AUDIO DEVICE IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18764318 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING VERSATILE AUDIO OBJECT RENDERING Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
19283835 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18400412 Fine-Grained Custom Sharding Of Databases Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
19330314 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING OUTLIER DATA AND GENERATING CORRECTIVE ACTION Non-Final OA Signet Health Corporation
18491363 QUERY PLANNING AND EXECUTION BASED ON HEURISTICS AND CONTEXTUAL STATISTICS IN A DATABASE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
19064943 Mapping Natural Language To Queries Using A Query Grammar Final Rejection ThoughtSpot, Inc.
18442193 Automatic Target Visualization Adaptation Non-Final OA ThoughtSpot, Inc.
19092686 DATA LOADING AND MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Twilio Inc.

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