Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: NILSSON, ERIC

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2122 2129 2145 2151 2198 4100

This examiner grants 83% of resolved cases

Analysis

Eric Nilsson works in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2122. The data includes 520 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 82.7%. This 82.7% rate indicates a favorable outlook for applicants in this art unit. The median days to allowance is 1140, which provides a benchmark for the expected time to grant. With 520 resolved cases, the examiner has a well-established track record of outcomes.

The interview lift is 17.6%, showing that interviews further enhance the 82.7% baseline allowance rate. Practitioners can use this 17.6% lift to justify the time and expense of an interview to their clients. The 1140 median days to allowance suggests a moderate pace for the prosecution cycle. Engaging the examiner directly appears to be a productive strategy given the 17.6% lift. This profile in Art Unit 2122 is defined by the 520 resolved cases and the high probability of allowance.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

82.7%
Allow Rate
+22.7% vs TC avg
535
Total Applications
+17.6%
Interview Lift
1140
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 520 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

27.2%
§101 Eligibility
14.5%
§102 Novelty
41.8%
§103 Obviousness
8.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18353572 CALIBRATION USING DIFFERENTIAL MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
18495528 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18669844 Method for Determining a Machine Learning Model Architecture for Detecting Anomalies in Sensor Signals Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18377520 ITERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL (MLIP) TRAINING METHODS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17972854 PROPRIOCEPTIVE LEARNING Final Rejection Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
17848728 PROGRAMMATIC SELECTOR FOR CHOOSING A WELL-SUITED STACKED MACHINE LEARNING ENSEMBLE PIPELINE AND HYPERPARAMETER VALUES Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
18475995 ADAPTIVE ACQUISITION FOR COMPRESSED SENSING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18769906 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISCRIMINATIVE SEMANTIC TRANSFER AND PHYSICS-INSPIRED OPTIMIZATION OF FEATURES IN DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17965995 INFERENCE DEVICE, AND UPDATE METHOD Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18651460 MACHINE LEARNING BASED APPROACH FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECOMMENDING CONTEXT-SPECIFIC NAVIGATION OPTIONS WITHIN A USER INTERFACE Non-Final OA INTUIT INC.
17401002 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection Visa International Service Association
18287488 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING CONDITION DETERMINATION SYSTEM Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
18385871 LOSS-SCALING FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING WITH REDUCED PRECISION Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18651011 COGNITIVE AUTOMATION FOR NETWORKING, SECURITY, IoT, AND COLLABORATION Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18507630 SECURELY INTEGRATING STORED ACCOUNT DATA WITH EXTERNAL WORKFLOWS AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection Dropbox, Inc.
18530683 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH DISTRIBUTED TRAINING OF NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
18238459 COMPUTING PLATFORM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING AND SIMULATION Final Rejection ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
18536589 METHOD FOR PREDICTING USER PERSONALITY USING PRE-OBTAINED PERSONALITY INDICATORS AND TIME-SERIES INFORMATION Non-Final OA Korea Electronics Technology Institute
18534295 MULTI-VIEW HYPERBOLIC-HYPERBOLIC GRAPH REPRESENTATION LEARNING METHOD Non-Final OA Shanxi University

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