Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Michael Christopher Lee, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2125 2128 2482 2655 4100

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Analysis

LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER works in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2125. The profile covers 172 resolved cases and records a 64.0% allowance rate. The median time to allowance is 1228 days, so applicants should anticipate a long prosecution horizon when setting portfolio schedules and evaluating continuation timing.

The reported interview lift is 25.5%, making interviews a potentially useful prosecution tool in this record. IBM, NEC, and Huawei are the leading listed companies. STERNE KESSLER, Dority & Manning with Red Hat, and Brooks Kushman are the leading listed firms. The listed entities suggest recurring work in communications and information technology.

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

Performance Statistics

64.0%
Allow Rate
+4.0% vs TC avg
226
Total Applications
+25.5%
Interview Lift
1228
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 172 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.3%
§101 Eligibility
10.5%
§102 Novelty
45.6%
§103 Obviousness
12.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17571761 SMART TEXT PARTITIONING FOR DETECTING SENSITIVE INFORMATION Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
18168234 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18405960 Geosteering Copilot Assistant Final Rejection Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17854482 TIME-VARYING FEATURES VIA METADATA Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17766616 RE-RANKING RESULTS FROM SEMANTIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN VIDEO GAMES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18209183 METHOD FOR TRAINING AT LEAST ONE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR ESTIMATING THE WEIGHT OF AN AIRCRAFT DURING FLIGHT BASED ON USE DATA Non-Final OA AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
18677962 RISK EVALUATION DEVICE, DATA PROTECTION DEVICE, AND RISK EVALUATION METHOD Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18289137 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PREDICTION APPARATUS, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING PROGRAM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18398359 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17511383 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SENSOR DATA PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
18048197 System and method for improving efficacy of supervised learning Final Rejection nference, inc.
18494944 AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING PIPELINE GENERATION Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18474564 REAL-TIME INFERENCE OF TEMPORAL DOWN-SAMPLING CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18658899 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A UNIFIED TRAINING FRAMEWORK OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
17814535 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LARGE SCALE POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Final Rejection Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18311672 MODEL DRIFT MANAGEMENT IN A MACHINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18623569 FEDERATED LEARNING Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18024122 INFERENCE CALCULATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFERENCE CALCULATION PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection FANUC CORPORATION
18623383 UNLEARNING DATA FROM PRE-TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITHOUT CATASTROPHIC FORGETTING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17664249 DETECTING NETWORK PATTERNS USING RANDOM WALKS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18440178 NEURAL NETWORK DATASET SELECTION Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18224362 OPTIMIZING RUNTIME CONFIGURATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS AND PROCESSING PIPELINES USING DATA AUGMENTATION Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18747830 MACHINE LEARNING DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM AND MACHINE LEARNING DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT METHOD Non-Final OA Hitachi, Ltd.
18623615 METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR AN OPTIMAL COMBINATION OF HYPERPARAMETERS FOR A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA STMicroelectronics International N.V.
17864206 QUANTUM SIMULATOR NETWORK FOR SIMULATING A QUANTUM SERVICE Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
17557637 OPTIMIZING QUANTUM PROCESSING BY QUBIT TYPE Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
18535868 FEDERATED LEARNING MODEL ATTACK PREVENTION Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Michael Christopher Lee's allowance rate?

64.0% of resolved applications examined by Michael Christopher Lee were allowed (172 resolved cases), compared with 56.9% across Art Unit 2125 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Michael Christopher Lee?

This examiner's interview lift is +25.5 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Michael Christopher Lee take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Michael Christopher Lee took 1,228 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Michael Christopher Lee work in?

Michael Christopher Lee examines applications in Art Unit 2125 in Tech Center 4100.

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