Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: MAY, ROBERT F

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2154 2155

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.5%
Allow Rate
+20.5% vs TC avg
327
Total Applications
+29.7%
Interview Lift
1193
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 286 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.3%
§101 Eligibility
18.0%
§102 Novelty
45.6%
§103 Obviousness
12.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18728927 FILE EXCHANGE APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18193388 INSPECTION SUPPORT DEVICE FOR STRUCTURE, INSPECTION SUPPORT METHOD FOR STRUCTURE, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18471060 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING OPTIMAL EMBEDDINGS FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILAR ENTITIES Non-Final OA MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
18433203 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18734854 USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCHING Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18490697 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
18367917 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURE OF CHANGE DATA FROM DISTRIBUTED DATA SOURCES, FOR USE WITH HETEROGENEOUS TARGETS Final Rejection ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
18490586 REAL-TIME FEATURE STORE IN A DATABASE SYSTEM Final Rejection Snowflake Inc.
18507021 PROVIDING A USER-TAILORED ANSWER TO A QUERY FROM A UE OPERATING ON A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK Non-Final OA T-Mobile USA, Inc.
18621872 GRAMMAR POWERED RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION FOR DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES Non-Final OA Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
17821269 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING SEMANTIC TABLE REPRESENTATIONS USING A TOKEN-WISE ENTITY TYPE CLASSIFICATION MECHANISM Final Rejection Optum, Inc.
18466890 MAXIMIZING INFORMATION GAIN OF THE JOINT ENVIRONMENT KNOWLEDGE AT CROWDED EDGE APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
19009983 Edge-Distributed Query Processing in Value Chain Networks Non-Final OA Strong Force VCN Portfolio 2019, LLC
18784402 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKETCH BASED SEARCH Non-Final OA YAHOO ASSETS LLC
18442008 ENHANCED TECHNIQUES FOR AVOIDING DOUBLE CLOSURES OF FILE DESCRIPTORS Final Rejection Sandpiper CDN, LLC
18959839 UNCERTAINTY-AWARE SEQUENCE MODELING Non-Final OA Themis AI, Inc.
18780970 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL ASSISTANTS Non-Final OA SoundHound AI IP, LLC.
18756986 Database with Integrated Generative AI Non-Final OA Formagrid Inc
18014040 FACIAL TEST DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF FACIAL RECOGNITION DEVICE, AND METHOD Final Rejection The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security
18777611 Methods for Compressing and Decompressing Multidimensional Data Non-Final OA Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
18652240 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE INPUT DATA SETS TO REFLECT DATASET MUTATIONS FOR GENAI AND RAG APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA Cloudera, Inc.
18649781 Generative AI Search Engine Non-Final OA MainFunc Inc.
18495235 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VECTOR DATASETS Final Rejection Woven by Toyota, Inc.
18626908 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLY SCOPED, DATA-DEPENDENT READ SNAPSHOTS Final Rejection Cockroach Labs, Inc.
17825568 AUTOMATIC PRESERVATION Final Rejection Preservica Ltd

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