Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: PHAM, JESSICA THUY

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2121 2128

This examiner grants 18% of resolved cases

Analysis

Jessica Thuy Pham is an examiner in Tech Center 2100, specifically Art Unit 2121, with 11 resolved cases on record. Her allowance rate is 18.2 percent, representing a challenging environment for securing patent grants. The median time to allowance for successful applications is 1475 days, indicating a prolonged prosecution cycle. These metrics suggest that applicants should prepare for a rigorous examination process and a significant time investment.

Despite the 18.2 percent allowance rate, the data shows a substantial interview lift of 90.0 percent. This specific figure suggests that direct communication with the examiner is a critical factor in overcoming rejections. For practitioners in Art Unit 2121, the disparity between the base allowance rate and the lift provided by interviews highlights a clear strategic path. Engaging in an interview appears to be an effective method for advancing applications toward a grant under this examiner's review.

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

Performance Statistics

18.2%
Allow Rate
-36.8% vs TC avg
46
Total Applications
+90.0%
Interview Lift
1475
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 11 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

28.5%
§101 Eligibility
10.7%
§102 Novelty
38.5%
§103 Obviousness
20.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17943890 METHOD FOR TRAINING A DETERMINISTIC AUTOENCODER Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18447347 MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING EMBODIED THEREON A MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM Final Rejection JVCKENWOOD Corporation
18664164 GENERATING GRAPH EMBEDDINGS ON DISTRIBUTED PROCESSORS Non-Final OA Google LLC
18157755 Self-Pruning Neural Networks with Regularized Auxiliary Variables Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18343173 REDUCING DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE SCHEMES Non-Final OA Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
18043166 LEARNING METHOD, CLUSTERING METHOD, LEARNING APPARATUS, CLUSTERING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17565215 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KNOWLEDGE BASE QUESTION ANSWERING USING GENERATION AUGMENTED RANKING Final Rejection salesforce.com, inc.
17815316 CONGENIALITY-PRESERVING GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS FOR IMPUTING LOW-DIMENSIONAL MULTIVARIATE TIME-SERIES DATA Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18677048 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED ERROR ANALYSIS FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA SAP SE
17546426 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR PROBLEM-SOLVING BASED ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Non-Final OA SAP SE
18123673 ANOMALOUS DATA IDENTIFICATION FOR TABULAR DATA Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
18047335 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CORRECTION Non-Final OA ADOBE INC.
17883817 METHOD AND DEVICE WITH CALCULATION FOR DRIVING NEURAL NETWORK MODEL Non-Final OA Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
17879404 ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IDENTIFYING STATE OF VISUAL OBJECT CORRESPONDING TO USER INPUT USING NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
18056101 CONTRASTIVE EMBEDDING OF STRUCTURED SPACE FOR BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION Final Rejection Spotify AB
18182924 System and Method for Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition with Neural Network Priors Final Rejection William Marsh Rice University

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