Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: MARU, MATIYAS T

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2148

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

57.5%
Allow Rate
+2.5% vs TC avg
79
Total Applications
+12.5%
Interview Lift
1643
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 40 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

35.9%
§101 Eligibility
1.9%
§102 Novelty
50.9%
§103 Obviousness
11.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17982618 METHOD AND DEVICE WITH NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18010377 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection Sony Group Corporation
17710863 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING OPTIMIZATION Final Rejection MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
18295679 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17853518 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED MODEL ON DATASETS HAVING DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17372142 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18299386 METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING MODEL BY USING MULTIPLE DATA OWNERS Non-Final OA Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
17752555 MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTION OF ADDITIONAL STEPS OF A COMPUTERIZED WORKFLOW Final Rejection ServiceNow, Inc.
18013237 LEARNING METHOD, LEARNING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18322643 UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING LEVERAGING HUMAN COGNITIVE ABILITY LEARNING LOOP WORKFLOW Non-Final OA Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
17976480 UPDATING LABEL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF DATA POINTS Non-Final OA MICRO FOCUS LLC
18134385 FEATURE ENGINEERING AND ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA ExlService Holdings, Inc.
17155458 Training and Deploying Model Frontiers to Automatically Adjust to Business Realities Non-Final OA Aible Inc.
18147967 TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUATING AN EFFECT OF CHANGES TO MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection EQUIFAX INC.
18247408 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DECONVOLUTION PROCESSING ON FEATURE DATA BY USING CONVOLUTION HARDWARE Non-Final OA Beijing Horizon Robotics Technology Research and Development Co., Ltd.
17791373 CONVERSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEEP LEARNING MODEL, SERVER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection SHENZHEN CORERAIN TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

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