Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: RUTTEN, JAMES D

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2121 2156 2192 2194 2197 4100

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.2%
Allow Rate
+3.2% vs TC avg
616
Total Applications
+37.7%
Interview Lift
1489
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 589 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.9%
§101 Eligibility
10.6%
§102 Novelty
51.6%
§103 Obviousness
17.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18376572 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18156063 Operating Quantum Devices Using Unsupervised Learning Final Rejection Google LLC
18037298 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18326396 REDUCING LATENCY THROUGH PROPENSITY MODELS THAT PREDICT DATA CALLS Non-Final OA PAYPAL, INC.
18308264 Behavior Estimation for Vehicle Management using Machine Learning Models Final Rejection The Boeing Company
17129954 METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN EVALUATION AND CONTROL MODEL FOR CONTROLLING TARGET BUILDING AUTOMATION DEVICES OF A TARGET BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM Final Rejection ABB Schweiz AG
18452010 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE AND FLEXIBLE FEDERATED LEARNING FRAMEWORKS Non-Final OA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
18224762 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPLIT PROCESSING OF MODEL Non-Final OA ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18216533 MULTITASK PROMPT TUNING FOR PARAMETER-EFFICIENT TRANSFER LEARNING Non-Final OA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18523411 ACTIVITY PLANNER Non-Final OA Arm Limited
17454935 COMPILATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS INTO SUBGRAPHS FOR PROCESSING BY MULTIPLE COMPUTE CIRCUITS Non-Final OA Xilinx, Inc.

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