Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: KIM, SEHWAN

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 2100 2123 2129 2196 3664

This examiner grants 60% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

60.0%
Allow Rate
+8.0% vs TC avg
185
Total Applications
+66.7%
Interview Lift
1474
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 150 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.9%
§101 Eligibility
7.3%
§102 Novelty
46.2%
§103 Obviousness
24.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17968653 TRANSLATION MODEL WITH LEARNED POSITION AND CORRECTIVE LOSS Final Rejection THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
18258375 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING OF STEERING GEOMETRY Non-Final OA VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
18425542 Load Balancing For Mixture Of Experts Machine Learning Non-Final OA Google LLC
18150748 NEURAL NETWORK BUILDING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18566261 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
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 Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
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.
18545042 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.
18275623 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING VEHICLES BY MEANS OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
17405859 PRIOR ADJUSTED VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER Final Rejection SAP SE
18461265 FEATURE SELECTION PROGRAM, FEATURE SELECTION DEVICE, AND FEATURE SELECTION METHOD Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
18461168 VIDEO RETRIEVAL BASED CONTEXTUALIZED LEARNING Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18230501 MODEL SELECTION USING FEATURE HEALTH SCORES WITH UNRELIABLE SENSORS Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
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
18271611 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORK OUTPUTS BY ENRICHING LATENT EMBEDDINGS USING SELF-ATTENTION AND CROSS-ATTENTION OPERATIONS Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited

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