Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: KOWALIK, SKIELER ALEXANDER

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2123 2126 2142

This examiner grants 40% of resolved cases

Analysis

Skieler Alexander Kowalik is an examiner in Tech Center 2100 and Art Unit 2123, where the examiner has 13 resolved cases. The data shows an allowance rate of 38.5 percent and an interview lift of 88.9 percent. This lift indicates that applicants who conduct an interview see a higher probability of allowance than the baseline. The 88.9 percent interview lift suggests that direct communication is a tool for navigating the process.

The median days to allowance for these 13 resolved cases is 1455. Practitioners should factor this 1455-day timeline into their prosecution strategy. The 38.5 percent allowance rate provides a baseline for success in this art unit. With the resolved cases, the data offers a look at the examiner's historical performance.

In Art Unit 2123, the median days to allowance represents the time required to reach a grant. The interview lift is a metric for applicants to consider when deciding whether to engage the examiner directly. These figures establish the current prosecution environment for this examiner in Tech Center 2100.

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

Performance Statistics

40.0%
Allow Rate
-15.0% vs TC avg
38
Total Applications
+72.2%
Interview Lift
1441
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 15 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

31.8%
§101 Eligibility
8.1%
§102 Novelty
54.3%
§103 Obviousness
4.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17974089 SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATION CONTENT Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17637120 ROBUSTNESS EVALUATION DEVICE, ROBUSTNESS EVALUATION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18596134 Method for Training Artificial Intelligence Model and Related Device Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18154523 MULTI-GRAPH CONVOLUTION COLLABORATIVE FILTERING Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17932809 FEDERATED LEARNING SURROGATION WITH TRUSTED SERVER Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18176374 Providing Fairness in Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Language Models Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18686916 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
18054451 MIXTURE-OF-EXPERTS LAYER WITH DYNAMIC GATING Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18731832 CONSTRAINED STRUCTURED DATA GENERATION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17690762 PERFORMING KNOWLEDGE GRAPH EMBEDDING USING A PREDICTION MODEL Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18064685 EFFICIENT GENERATION OF AN EXTRAPOLATED INDICATION ASSOCIATED WITH A SUBSEQUENT EVENT WITHOUT REDUNDANCY Non-Final OA Truist Bank
17550650 SELECTING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY PARAMETERS IN NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA SAP SE
18066254 MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR DATA DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDING USER INTERACTION POLICIES Final Rejection Dexcom, Inc.
17947117 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED USER SELECTION PREDICTION BASED ON SEQUENCE OF PRIOR USER SELECTIONS Non-Final OA Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
18347323 Method and System for Solving QUBO Problems with Hybrid Classical-Quantum Solvers Non-Final OA Terra Quantum AG

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