Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: MAI, KEVIN S

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2152 2411 2448 2456 2458 2499

This examiner grants 29% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

29.1%
Allow Rate
-28.9% vs TC avg
468
Total Applications
+26.1%
Interview Lift
1720
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 429 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.5%
§101 Eligibility
3.2%
§102 Novelty
95.6%
§103 Obviousness
0.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18917221 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO CONTENT ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18153029 AUTHENTICATOR TO AUTHORIZE PERSISTENT OPERATIONS Non-Final OA DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
17721177 DETECT AND PREVENT SYNCHRONIZING OF A CORRUPTED FILE Non-Final OA Dell Products, L.P.
18797278 UNAUTHORIZED BACKSCATTER DEVICE DETECTION Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18326194 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING AND PROCESSING AUDITABLE METADATA Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
17801861 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURING COMMUNICATION Final Rejection MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
18242932 Regular Expression Rule Grouping Balancer Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17980201 Systems and Methods for Managing Access to Confidential Data Final Rejection STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
18920513 STORAGE METHOD Non-Final OA STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V.
18920875 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM Non-Final OA ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
17788044 ROUTING METHOD, ROUTING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION
18920701 EFFICACY SCORING METRIC FOR AN ACCESS CONTROL POLICY LIST Non-Final OA Fortinet, Inc.
17886397 Resource Monitoring in a Distributed Storage System Non-Final OA Weka.IO LTD
18355587 WEB BROWSER REMOTING ACROSS A NETWORK USING DRAW COMMANDS Final Rejection CLOUDFLARE, INC.
17678628 NOTIFICATION CONDITION CUSTOMIZED MESSAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD Final Rejection Seo Hyun CHOI
18237517 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME USER VERIFICATION AND MODIFICATION OF A MULTIMEDIA STREAM Final Rejection AnonyDoxx, LLC

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