Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2124 2141

This examiner grants 53% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.9%
Allow Rate
-2.1% vs TC avg
46
Total Applications
+65.7%
Interview Lift
1421
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 17 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

28.6%
§101 Eligibility
7.6%
§102 Novelty
42.8%
§103 Obviousness
19.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17887021 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH SENSITIVITY-BASED QUANTIZED TRAINING AND OPERATION Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18313871 TUNABLE AGENT BEHAVIORS THROUGH CONTINUOUS REWARD WEIGHT-BASED GOAL SPACES Final Rejection Sony Group Corporation
17909575 DATA AUGMENTATION METHOD, METHOD OF TRAINING SUPERVISED LEARNING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER DEVICES Non-Final OA BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
17831750 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING A SIGNAL AND/OR FOR PERFORMING REGRESSION ANALYSIS ON A SIGNAL Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17378581 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING HYPERPARAMETER SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY Final Rejection Walmart Apollo, LLC
17557693 FEATURE DEPRECATION ARCHITECTURES FOR DECISION-TREE BASED METHODS Final Rejection PayPal, Inc.
18041002 SYSTEM FOR PROVABLY ROBUST INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
17518855 BUILDING AND MANAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FLOWS USING LONG-RUNNING WORKFLOWS FOR ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION Final Rejection UiPath, Inc.
18194478 GENERATING ML PIPELINES USING EXPLORATORY AND GENERATIVE CODE GENERATION TOOLS Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
18612138 AUTOMATED OPTIMIZATION OF EXTRACTION-BASED CATEGORIZATION PROCESSES Non-Final OA INTUIT INC.
18513930 METHODS AND MECHANISMS TO PERFORM AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATIONS OF ANOMALOUS TRACE SHAPES Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
18477804 CONTENT DISTRIBUTION BASED ON A USER JOURNEY USING MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA ADOBE INC.
18313310 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING USING LIFTED ACTION MODELS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17794134 CONTROLLING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL STRUCTURES Non-Final OA Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
17858718 EXTRAPOLATED USAGE DATA Non-Final OA Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

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