Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: NYE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHER

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2141 2145

This examiner grants 29% of resolved cases

Analysis

Louis Christopher Nye examines cases in Art Unit 2141 and Tech Center 2100. He has 14 resolved cases with an allowance rate of 28.6 percent. The median days to allowance is 1542, which indicates a long duration for successful prosecution. Practitioners should prepare for a timeline that spans many days in Tech Center 2100.

The interview lift is 30.0 percent, which significantly increases the chances of allowance compared to the 28.6 percent baseline. For the 14 cases resolved, the 1542-day median pendency is a key factor to consider. Practitioners should prioritize interviews to leverage the 30.0 percent lift and improve their chances in Art Unit 2141. The 28.6 percent allowance rate suggests a challenging environment, but proactive communication during the 1542-day process may be beneficial for applicants.

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

Performance Statistics

28.6%
Allow Rate
-26.4% vs TC avg
37
Total Applications
+30.0%
Interview Lift
1542
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 14 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

26.2%
§101 Eligibility
8.4%
§102 Novelty
58.7%
§103 Obviousness
6.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17576914 CREATING AN ACCURATE LATENCY LOOKUP TABLE FOR NPU Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18760432 METHOD OF CUSTOMER SENTIMENT ANALYSIS USING LOGS AND FEEDBACK Non-Final OA Schlumberger Technology Corporation
18071881 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK-BIASED TRAJECTORY FORECASTING Non-Final OA TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
18023225 LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18171845 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18667699 SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHODS OF PRIVACY PROTECTION Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
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.
18424624 Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps Non-Final OA Google LLC
18763667 INFERENCE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18344419 UN-LEARNING OF TRAINING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18746832 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING FAIRNESS IMPACT OF MODEL Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
17965284 ONLINE AUTOMATIC HYPERPARAMETER TUNING Non-Final OA Roku, Inc.
18101620 ADAPTIVELY CONFIGURING RESOURCES IN FEDERATED LEARNING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
17750052 METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING IN NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM Final Rejection TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
18758560 ACTIVATION ACCELERATOR FOR NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18622046 MANAGING INFERENCE MODELS IN VIEW OF ANOMALY CONDITIONS USING UNSUPERVISED METHODS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17834294 AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING EVENT-RELATED COMMUNICATION DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17891981 SELF-SUPERVISED FRAMEWORK FOR GRAPH REPRESENTATION LEARNING Non-Final OA Feedzai - Consultadoria e Inovação Tecnológica, S.A

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