Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Louis Christopher Nye, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as NYE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHER

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2141 2145

This examiner grants 27% of resolved cases

Analysis

NYE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHER is assigned to tech center 2100 and art unit 2141. The profile records 15 resolved cases, an allowance rate of 26.7%, and a median of 1527 days to allowance. The interview lift is 31.8%, indicating a substantial relationship between interviews and allowance outcomes. The small record means the measures should be treated cautiously, but it also supports deliberate preparation for every examination interaction.

The listed companies are Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Canon Inc. The listed firms are CANTOR COLBURN LLP, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd, and MBM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGENCY. Counsel may consider an interview-led effort to isolate allowable subject matter, while preserving broad and narrow claim alternatives because the allowance measure and timing indicate a demanding prosecution path.

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

Performance Statistics

26.7%
Allow Rate
-28.3% vs TC avg
47
Total Applications
+31.8%
Interview Lift
1527
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 15 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.7%
§101 Eligibility
9.5%
§102 Novelty
53.4%
§103 Obviousness
6.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17576914 CREATING AN ACCURATE LATENCY LOOKUP TABLE FOR NPU Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18763667 INFERENCE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18424624 Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps Non-Final OA Google LLC
18071881 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK-BIASED TRAJECTORY FORECASTING Non-Final OA TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
18193815 LARGE MODEL EMULATION BY KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION BASED NAS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17984421 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING NODE STATE Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17953063 NEURAL NETWORK MODEL PROCESSING METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18504300 TRAINING METHOD, TRAINING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18746832 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING FAIRNESS IMPACT OF MODEL Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
18344419 UN-LEARNING OF TRAINING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
17690458 CONTINUOUS MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR CONTAINERIZED ENVIRONMENT WITH LIMITED RESOURCES Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18101620 ADAPTIVELY CONFIGURING RESOURCES IN FEDERATED LEARNING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18758560 ACTIVATION ACCELERATOR FOR NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
17750052 METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING IN NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM Final Rejection TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
17834294 AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING EVENT-RELATED COMMUNICATION DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Louis Christopher Nye's allowance rate?

26.7% of resolved applications examined by Louis Christopher Nye were allowed (15 resolved cases), compared with 26.4% across Art Unit 2141 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Louis Christopher Nye?

This examiner's interview lift is +31.8 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Louis Christopher Nye take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Louis Christopher Nye took 1,527 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Louis Christopher Nye work in?

Louis Christopher Nye examines applications in Art Unit 2141 in Tech Center 2100 (Computing & Software).

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