Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2125 2127

This examiner grants 26% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

26.1%
Allow Rate
-28.9% vs TC avg
57
Total Applications
+2.3%
Interview Lift
1554
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 23 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

17.9%
§101 Eligibility
20.5%
§102 Novelty
60.0%
§103 Obviousness
1.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17972302 MACHINE LEARNING WITH INSTANCE-DEPENDENT LABEL NOISE Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17436418 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONVERTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17481958 CUSTOMIZATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED FEATURES Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18269499 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17443840 FEDERATED LEARNING IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17353978 DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17307109 INFERENCE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17421886 METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CREATING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17191379 RANDOMIZED METHOD FOR IMPROVING APPROXIMATIONS FOR NONLINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17231015 NEURAL NETWORK BASED ANOMALY DETECTION FOR TIME-SERIES DATA Final Rejection Salesforce, Inc.
18149441 MACHINE LEARNING INSIGHTS BASED ON IDENTIFIER DISTRIBUTIONS Final Rejection Optum, Inc.
17196807 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
17797203 TRAINING MULTI-OBJECTIVE NEURAL NETWORK REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SYSTEMS Final Rejection DeepMind Technologies Limited
18259563 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA FOR GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
17338476 DYNAMIC WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Outreach Corporation
17176464 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING REAL-TIME DNN EXECUTION ON MOBILE DEVICES WITH PATTERN-BASED WEIGHT PRUNING Non-Final OA College of William & Mary

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