Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2124 2141

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.5%
Allow Rate
+6.5% vs TC avg
43
Total Applications
+83.3%
Interview Lift
1431
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 13 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

29.1%
§101 Eligibility
7.5%
§102 Novelty
40.4%
§103 Obviousness
21.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17887021 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH SENSITIVITY-BASED QUANTIZED TRAINING AND OPERATION Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17378581 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING HYPERPARAMETER SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY Non-Final OA Walmart Apollo, LLC
17790418 Distributed Machine-Learned Models Across Networks of Interactive Objects Final Rejection Google LLC
18313310 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING USING LIFTED ACTION MODELS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17339978 ONLINE TRAINING OF NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17604584 CLASSIFICATION MODEL FOR CONTROLLING A MANUFACTURING PROCESS Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
17557693 FEATURE DEPRECATION ARCHITECTURES FOR DECISION-TREE BASED METHODS Non-Final OA PayPal, Inc.
18176342 Inference Performance Using Divide-and-Conquer Techniques Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17794134 CONTROLLING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL STRUCTURES Final Rejection Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
17858718 EXTRAPOLATED USAGE DATA Non-Final OA Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
17382310 POST-HOC LOCAL EXPLANATIONS OF BLACK BOX SIMILARITY MODELS Final Rejection RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
17534922 TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
17518855 BUILDING AND MANAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FLOWS USING LONG-RUNNING WORKFLOWS FOR ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION Final Rejection UiPath, Inc.
17657625 CAUSAL EVENT PREDICTION FOR EVENTS Non-Final OA BMC Software, Inc.
17963928 Simulating Clinical Trials Using Whole Body Digital Twin Technology Non-Final OA Twin Health, Inc.
18047073 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM DECODING USER'S THOUGHTS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF Non-Final OA 4N Inc.
17566927 DISTRIBUTED DATA GATHERING AND RECOMMENDATION IN PHYTOTHERAPY Non-Final OA Michael S. Clemmons

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