Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: KIM, SEHWAN

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

This examiner grants 61% of resolved cases

Analysis

Sehwan Kim is an examiner in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2100, with 156 resolved cases. The allowance rate is 60.9, and the median days to allowance is 1479. These figures suggest the success rate and the timeline for resolution. The 1479-day median pendency is a factor that applicants must account for when planning their strategy.

The interview lift is 67.3, indicating that interviews are a tool for success with this examiner. This lift increases the impact of the 60.9 baseline allowance rate, suggesting that verbal advocacy is effective. For the 156 resolved cases, the 67.3 lift is a strategic factor for practitioners to consider. By prioritizing direct engagement, applicants can improve their chances of success beyond the 60.9 rate and manage the 1479-day median path to allowance.

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

Performance Statistics

60.9%
Allow Rate
+0.9% vs TC avg
188
Total Applications
+67.3%
Interview Lift
1479
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 156 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

20.3%
§101 Eligibility
7.7%
§102 Novelty
46.5%
§103 Obviousness
23.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
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
18566261 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18258375 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING OF STEERING GEOMETRY Non-Final OA VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
18150748 NEURAL NETWORK BUILDING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
17168548 BRAIN OPERATING SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE Final Rejection Genesis Intelligence, LLC
17078066 BRAIN OPERATING SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE Non-Final OA Genesis Intelligence, LLC
18462019 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
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
18461265 FEATURE SELECTION PROGRAM, FEATURE SELECTION DEVICE, AND FEATURE SELECTION METHOD Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
18209421 SAMPLING OPERATIONS IN A COMPUTER VISION TOOL TO REGULATE DOWNSTREAM TASKS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17840169 Generation and Explanation of Transformer Computation Graph Using Graph Attention Model Non-Final OA 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
17650440 EFFICIENT OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17550389 CONTENTION DETECTION AND CAUSE DETERMINATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17410347 EXTERNAL LANGUAGE MODEL FUSING METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17405859 PRIOR ADJUSTED VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER Final Rejection SAP SE
18545025 SEMI-SUPERVISED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT TIME-SERIES ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18545042 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.
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.
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.
19096194 REVERSE ENGINEERING MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS THROUGH DATA POISONING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Datalytica LLC
17876026 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA ElectrifAi Opco, LLC

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