Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2125

This examiner grants 26% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

26.1%
Allow Rate
-28.9% vs TC avg
56
Total Applications
+2.3%
Interview Lift
1723
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 23 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

36.1%
§101 Eligibility
16.0%
§102 Novelty
35.8%
§103 Obviousness
11.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17972302 MACHINE LEARNING WITH INSTANCE-DEPENDENT LABEL NOISE 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
17428356 MACHINE LEARNING GUIDED POLYPEPTIDE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC
17443840 FEDERATED LEARNING IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS Final Rejection 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
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
18333712 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZING CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS IN TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHMS OR OTHER ALGORITHMS Non-Final OA Raytheon Company
18347095 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING CHARGING CAPACITY PREDICTION MODEL BASED ON METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS AND CHARGING FACILITY FAILURES, AND PREDICTION METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF Non-Final OA MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY
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
17338476 DYNAMIC WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Outreach Corporation

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