Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: KNIGHT, PAUL M

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2124 2126 2139 2144 2147 2148 4100

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.1%
Allow Rate
+2.1% vs TC avg
304
Total Applications
+17.4%
Interview Lift
1182
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 282 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

8.5%
§101 Eligibility
5.1%
§102 Novelty
46.8%
§103 Obviousness
35.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18217107 NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR WITH PARAMETERS RESIDENT ON CHIP Final Rejection Google LLC
18389273 LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18179826 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL MANAGEMENT Final Rejection JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
18001453 QUANTUM COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL DEVICE Non-Final OA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
18383427 COMPUTER SYSTEM AND TRAINING DATA GENERATION METHOD Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
17656742 Multiplier-Less Sparse Deep Neural Network Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
17784877 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED FEEDBACK FOR CASCADED FEDERATED MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18565585 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING AND CLASSIFYING EVENT SEQUENCES EMBEDDED IN A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
17910475 Learning Data Generation Device, Learning Device, Control Device, Learning Data Generation Method, Learning Method, Control Method, Learning Data Generation Program, Learning Program, and Control Program Final Rejection OMRON Corporation
17429760 INVERSE AND FORWARD MODELING MACHINE LEARNING-BASED GENERATIVE DESIGN Non-Final OA SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
17937628 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR BUILDING A TRAINING DATASET Final Rejection Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
17227311 INCREASING INCLUSIVITY IN MACHINE LEARNING OUTPUTS Final Rejection AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
17594150 System and Method for Improving a Processing System using Learning Systems Final Rejection Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
18160424 System and Method for Temperature Forecasting for Storage Objects Using Log-Based Classification Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18526334 BUFFERS FOR STREAMING IN QUANTUM-CENTRIC SUPERCOMPUTING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17713251 PACING SERVING OF CONTENT TRANSFER REQUESTS Non-Final OA MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
17592852 PREDICTING RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE DRIFTS Non-Final OA Kyndryl, Inc.

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