Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Sehwan Kim, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as KIM, SEHWAN

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2100 2123 2129 2196 2400 3664 4100

This examiner grants 60% of resolved cases

Analysis

KIM, SEHWAN is assigned to tech center 4100 and art unit 2100. The profile includes 158 resolved cases, an allowance rate of 60.1%, and a median of 1475 days to allowance. Interviews are associated with a 66.4% lift in the allowance rate.

NEC Laboratories America Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, and Genesis Intelligence LLC are the listed companies. The leading firms are Harrity & Harrity, LLP, NEO IP, and Akona IP PC - Intel. The interview measure is a significant part of this record and supports deliberate consideration of examiner engagement. The median timing indicates that applicants should incorporate extended prosecution planning into filing and portfolio decisions.

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

Performance Statistics

60.1%
Allow Rate
At TC average
189
Total Applications
+66.4%
Interview Lift
1475
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 158 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

20.4%
§101 Eligibility
7.6%
§102 Novelty
45.3%
§103 Obviousness
24.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18462019 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17932225 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL COMPRESSION USING WEIGHTED LOW-RANK FACTORIZATION Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17968653 TRANSLATION MODEL WITH LEARNED POSITION AND CORRECTIVE LOSS Final Rejection THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
18425542 Load Balancing For Mixture Of Experts Machine Learning Final Rejection Google LLC
18566261 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18150748 NEURAL NETWORK BUILDING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18258375 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING OF STEERING GEOMETRY Non-Final OA VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
18468873 MULTI-TASK GATING FOR MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18335685 PROPAGATING ATTENTION INFORMATION IN EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18489327 SOLVING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS USING SPIKING NEUROMORPHIC NETWORK Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18545042 SEMI-SUPERVISED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT TIME-SERIES ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18545025 SEMI-SUPERVISED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT TIME-SERIES ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18545055 SEMI-SUPERVISED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT TIME-SERIES ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18152238 SEMI-SUPERVISED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT TIME-SERIES ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION Final Rejection NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18209421 SAMPLING OPERATIONS IN A COMPUTER VISION TOOL TO REGULATE DOWNSTREAM TASKS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18340457 REINFORCEMENT MACHINE LEARNING WITH HYPERPARAMETER TUNING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18167855 DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND RISK MODELING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17410347 EXTERNAL LANGUAGE MODEL FUSING METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18461168 VIDEO RETRIEVAL BASED CONTEXTUALIZED LEARNING Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
17495993 ACTIVITY TIMELINE ANALYSIS AND INFERENCES USING A REASONING ENGINE Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
17405859 PRIOR ADJUSTED VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER Final Rejection SAP SE
17828854 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING QUANTUM WALKS IN DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM COMPUTING Non-Final OA Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
18230501 MODEL SELECTION USING FEATURE HEALTH SCORES WITH UNRELIABLE SENSORS Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18271611 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORK OUTPUTS BY ENRICHING LATENT EMBEDDINGS USING SELF-ATTENTION AND CROSS-ATTENTION OPERATIONS Final Rejection DeepMind Technologies Limited

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Sehwan Kim's allowance rate?

60.1% of resolved applications examined by Sehwan Kim were allowed (158 resolved cases), compared with 38.8% across Art Unit 2100 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Sehwan Kim?

This examiner's interview lift is +66.4 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Sehwan Kim take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Sehwan Kim took 1,475 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Sehwan Kim work in?

Sehwan Kim examines applications in Art Unit 2100 in Tech Center 4100.

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