Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: RYLANDER, BART I

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2123 2124 2857 4100

This examiner grants 68% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

67.5%
Allow Rate
+7.5% vs TC avg
146
Total Applications
+14.1%
Interview Lift
1426
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 126 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.0%
§101 Eligibility
7.9%
§102 Novelty
62.9%
§103 Obviousness
7.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18360136 SPLITTING OF INPUT DATA FOR PROCESSING IN NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSOR Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18514481 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING WHEN TO RETRAIN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL Non-Final OA JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
18458363 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17939085 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NON-STATIONARY TIME-SERIES FORECASTING Final Rejection Salesforce.com, inc.
18390359 RE-TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL IN REAL-TIME USING A FAST ALGORITHM Non-Final OA INTUIT INC.
15907098 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE-TO-IMAGE TRANSLATION USING VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODERS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18067871 GENERATION OF DATA TRANSFORMATIONS USING FINGERPRINTS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18064091 NETWORK-LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL FOR MULTI DEEP-LEARNING TASKS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18535491 FINE-TUNING OF NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA XILINX, INC.

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