Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER

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

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.1%
Allow Rate
+2.1% vs TC avg
197
Total Applications
+26.4%
Interview Lift
1202
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 153 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.1%
§101 Eligibility
10.5%
§102 Novelty
45.2%
§103 Obviousness
12.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18394200 CLASSIFYING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SENTIMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
18168234 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17514840 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING NEURAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18605138 COMBINATION OPTIMIZATION CALCULATION METHOD AND COMBINATION OPTIMIZATION CALCULATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
18430586 TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS USING LEARNED OPTIMIZERS Non-Final OA Google LLC
17766616 RE-RANKING RESULTS FROM SEMANTIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN VIDEO GAMES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18405960 Geosteering Copilot Assistant Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
18398359 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17511383 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SENSOR DATA PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
17571761 SMART TEXT PARTITIONING FOR DETECTING SENSITIVE INFORMATION Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
18289137 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PREDICTION APPARATUS, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING PROGRAM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18382714 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17612310 MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, PARAMETER CALCULATION DEVICE, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, PARAMETER CALCULATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18510420 Clustering Using Natural Language Processing Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17854482 TIME-VARYING FEATURES VIA METADATA Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18109538 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL ASSISTANT IN A MEETING Non-Final OA JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
18311672 MODEL DRIFT MANAGEMENT IN A MACHINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17729957 EXPLORING ENTITIES OF INTEREST OVER MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES USING KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18504214 APPARATUS FOR NON-DETERMINISTIC FUTURE STATE PREDICTION USING TIME SERIES DATA AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
17814535 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LARGE SCALE POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Final Rejection Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
17714089 METHOD FOR BLOCK-LEVEL NN DEPLOYMENT METRIC MODELLING Final Rejection NXP B.V.
18623569 FEDERATED LEARNING Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
17819519 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK WITH COMBINED CROSS-ENTROPY AND FOCAL LOSS FOR COVID-19 DETECTION IN AUDIO SAMPLES Non-Final OA ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
17499815 DECENTRALIZED POLICY GRADIENT DESCENT AND ASCENT FOR SAFE MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Non-Final OA RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
18440178 NEURAL NETWORK DATASET SELECTION Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
17992232 PREDICTION OF INDOOR BIOAEROSOL CONCENTRATIONS FROM INDOOR AIR QUALITY SENSOR DATA BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS Non-Final OA City University of Hong Kong
18679924 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CONDITION OF AN ENTITY VIA MACHINE-LEARNING Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
18433331 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WORKFORCE ELASTICITY INDEXING Non-Final OA ADP, Inc.
18436346 METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRAINING QUESTION-ANSWER SYSTEM Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18135342 DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF REQUEST CONFIGURATIONS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.

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