Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS

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

This examiner grants 24% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

24.0%
Allow Rate
-36.0% vs TC avg
62
Total Applications
+1.9%
Interview Lift
1584
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 25 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

35.7%
§101 Eligibility
17.2%
§102 Novelty
35.9%
§103 Obviousness
10.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17428356 MACHINE LEARNING GUIDED POLYPEPTIDE ANALYSIS Final Rejection Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC
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.
18633377 Systems and Methods for Discovering New Gameplay Techniques Using Reinforcement Learning Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
17481958 CUSTOMIZATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED FEATURES Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17191591 ATTENTION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH TALKING HEADS ATTENTION Non-Final OA Google LLC
18401738 TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL NETWORK MODEL, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18269499 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18570086 Control of an Electricity Supply Network Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18479484 SYSTEM FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF FAST AND MEMORY EFFICIENT TSETLIN MACHINES MODELS ON RESOURCE CONSTRAINED DEVICES Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18502488 DOMAIN GENERALIZATION BY GSNR OF PARAMETERS Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18333712 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZING CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS IN TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHMS OR OTHER ALGORITHMS Final Rejection Raytheon Company
18571042 MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, PREDICTION DEVICE, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, PREDICTION METHOD, AND RESIN COMPOSITION MANUFACTURING SYSTEM Non-Final OA TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
17342037 ORCHESTRATION OF MULTI-CORE MACHINE LEARNING PROCESSORS Non-Final OA Texas Instruments Incorporated
17388791 DYNAMIC ACTION IDENTIFICATION FOR COMMUNICATION PLATFORM Final Rejection Salesforce, Inc.
18321205 SLA-ORIENTED MODELLING OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE EXTRAPOLATION OF QUANTUM ANNEALING PERFORMANCE METRICS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17448711 MACHINE LEARNING METHOD AND MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE FOR ELIMINATING SPURIOUS CORRELATION Final Rejection HTC Corporation

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