Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Emily E Larocque, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as LAROCQUE, EMILY E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2151 2182

This examiner grants 81% of resolved cases

Analysis

LAROCQUE, EMILY E is associated with Tech Center 2100 and art unit 2151. The profile covers 481 resolved cases and reports an allowance rate of 80.7%. The median time to allowance is 981 days, and interviews correspond to a 12.9% lift in the allowance rate. These metrics provide practitioners with a defined record for evaluating prosecution timing and response planning.

The listed companies are Fujitsu Limited, Intel Corporation, and International Business Machines Corporation. The listed firms are Xsensus, BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP, and GREENBLUM & BERNSTEIN, P.L.C. Applicants can use these appearances to identify counsel familiar with the examiner and the relevant technology area. The profile supports advance consideration of interview strategy, while the reported statistics remain aggregate measures rather than application-specific predictions.

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

Performance Statistics

80.7%
Allow Rate
+25.7% vs TC avg
519
Total Applications
+12.9%
Interview Lift
981
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 481 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.7%
§101 Eligibility
12.9%
§102 Novelty
22.2%
§103 Obviousness
29.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18115032 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING FLOATING-POINT OPERATION USING MEMORY PROCESSOR Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18083333 ONE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONAL UNIT FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Non-Final OA Google LLC
18004072 OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM SOLVING METHOD AND OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM SOLVING DEVICE Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18020526 COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM SOLUTION DEVICE Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17922558 SURROGATE BINARY OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17592504 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17543774 OPTIMIZATION APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
17958373 8-BIT FLOATING POINT SOURCE ARITHMETIC INSTRUCTIONS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17958378 INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERT FROM FP16 TO FP8 Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17989780 FINAL EXPONENTIATION COMPUTATION DEVICE, PAIRING COMPUTATION DEVICE, CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING DEVICE, FINAL EXPONENTIATION COMPUTATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
17810249 COMPUTING ESTIMATED CLOSEST CORRELATION MATRICES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17977813 HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR PIPELINED VECTOR OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Texas Instruments Incorporated
18071230 Scalable Switch Capacitor Computation Cores for Accurate and Efficient Deep Learning Inference Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18052903 WEIGHT EXPANSION TO REDUCE WEIGHT PRECISION Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17112795 EFFICIENT SOFTMAX COMPUTATION Final Rejection NVIDIA Corp.
18175970 WAVELENGTH-PARALLEL PHOTONIC TENSOR CORE Non-Final OA HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
18070429 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING ROBUST LOW-RANK MATRIX RECOVERY VIA HYBRID ORDINARY-WELSCH FUNCTION Non-Final OA City University of Hong Kong
18053458 INDICATION OF QUALITY FOR RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION Non-Final OA Microchip Technology Incorporated

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Emily E Larocque's allowance rate?

80.7% of resolved applications examined by Emily E Larocque were allowed (481 resolved cases), compared with 81.0% across Art Unit 2151 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Emily E Larocque?

This examiner's interview lift is +12.9 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Emily E Larocque take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Emily E Larocque took 981 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Emily E Larocque work in?

Emily E Larocque examines applications in Art Unit 2151 in Tech Center 2100 (Computing & Software).

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