Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2123 2125 2127 2152 4100

This examiner grants 32% of resolved cases

Analysis

Kurt Nicholas Pressly examines applications in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2123. He has 28 resolved cases with an allowance rate of 32.1 percent. This 32.1 percent rate indicates a challenging environment where fewer than half of the applications reach a grant.

The interview lift is 16.9 percent. This figure suggests that conducting an interview is a productive strategy for increasing the likelihood of a grant. The 16.9 percent lift provides a meaningful boost to the allowance rate, making it a recommended tactic for practitioners to use during prosecution.

The median days to allowance is 1623. This timeline represents the typical duration for applications to reach a final grant. With 28 resolved cases, these metrics offer a clear view of the examiner's performance. The 1623-day median defines the expected prosecution experience for applicants in this docket.

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

Performance Statistics

32.1%
Allow Rate
-27.9% vs TC avg
63
Total Applications
+16.9%
Interview Lift
1623
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 28 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

35.2%
§101 Eligibility
16.8%
§102 Novelty
36.9%
§103 Obviousness
10.7%
§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 Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18269499 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18401738 TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL NETWORK MODEL, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
16649523 TRAINING DATA GENERATORS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17481958 CUSTOMIZATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED FEATURES Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18633377 Systems and Methods for Discovering New Gameplay Techniques Using Reinforcement Learning Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18479484 SYSTEM FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF FAST AND MEMORY EFFICIENT TSETLIN MACHINES MODELS ON RESOURCE CONSTRAINED DEVICES Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
17388791 DYNAMIC ACTION IDENTIFICATION FOR COMMUNICATION PLATFORM Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
18502488 DOMAIN GENERALIZATION BY GSNR OF PARAMETERS Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
17342037 ORCHESTRATION OF MULTI-CORE MACHINE LEARNING PROCESSORS Non-Final OA Texas Instruments Incorporated
18882561 TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZED ROUTING OF INPUTS TO MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA NETFLIX, INC.
17448711 MACHINE LEARNING METHOD AND MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE FOR ELIMINATING SPURIOUS CORRELATION Final Rejection HTC Corporation
17167400 GENERATING ROLES IN SPORTS THROUGH UNSUPERVISED LEARNING Final Rejection STATS LLC
18333712 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZING CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS IN TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHMS OR OTHER ALGORITHMS Non-Final OA Raytheon Company
18259563 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA FOR GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
18149441 MACHINE LEARNING INSIGHTS BASED ON IDENTIFIER DISTRIBUTIONS Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
18321205 SLA-ORIENTED MODELLING OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE EXTRAPOLATION OF QUANTUM ANNEALING PERFORMANCE METRICS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.

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