Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: MARU, MATIYAS T

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2148

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.2%
Allow Rate
+7.2% vs TC avg
79
Total Applications
+7.5%
Interview Lift
1526
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 45 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

16.0%
§101 Eligibility
0%
§102 Novelty
82.0%
§103 Obviousness
2.0%
§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
18295679 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18157277 NEURAL NETWORK DISTILLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17128335 MINIMIZING PROCESSING MACHINE LEARNING PIPELINING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
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
17544598 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRUNING FILTERS IN DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA 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.
18102411 Knowledge Transfer Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18013237 LEARNING METHOD, LEARNING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
17976480 UPDATING LABEL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF DATA POINTS Non-Final OA MICRO FOCUS LLC
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.
18134385 FEATURE ENGINEERING AND ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA ExlService Holdings, 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.
17813670 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PERFORMANCE METRICS USING COHORTS Non-Final OA Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC

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