Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: MCINTOSH, ANDREW T

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2124 2144 2176

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

76.9%
Allow Rate
+21.9% vs TC avg
538
Total Applications
+18.0%
Interview Lift
1122
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 511 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.1%
§101 Eligibility
13.5%
§102 Novelty
56.7%
§103 Obviousness
7.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17475330 METHOD FOR SPARSIFICATION OF FEATURE MAPS IN SELF-ATTENTION MECHANISMS Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17179781 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH CONVOLUTION OPERATION PROCESSING BASED ON REDUNDANCY REDUCTION Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18031383 SAMPLING USER EQUIPMENTS FOR FEDERATED LEARNING MODEL COLLECTION Non-Final OA NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
18206026 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION MODEL, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
17444894 MACHINE LEARNING NETWORK FOR SCREENING QUANTUM DEVICES Non-Final OA The Boeing Company
18170307 MANAGEMENT OF DRIFTED RECORDS IN MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18073651 Learning Neuro-Symbolic World Models Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18262717 OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DETECTION FOR PERSONALIZING NEURAL NETWORK MODELS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18433697 TRANSACTION ENTITY PREDICTION THROUGH LEARNED EMBEDDINGS Non-Final OA Intuit, Inc.
17885530 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
17318810 GATE BASED RESISTANCE CONTROL UNITS Non-Final OA Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
18199801 Systems and Methods for Detecting CRISPR-Mediated Residues Within Methylated Patterns of Genome Using Automated Statistical Methods and Long Short-Term Memory Autoencoders Non-Final OA MITRE Corporation
17764265 METHOD FOR GENERATING DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE SAME Final Rejection DEEPBRAIN AI INC.
18335212 DEBIASED TRAINING OF MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Pinterest, Inc.
18012528 Distributed Quantum Computing Simulation Method and Apparatus Non-Final OA SUZHOU INSPUR INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CP., LTD.

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