Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: SALOMON, PHENUEL S

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2124 2141 2146 2171 2173 2175 2178 2179

This examiner grants 73% of resolved cases

Analysis

Phenuel S Salomon has resolved 738 cases in Tech Center 2100. The examiner maintains an allowance rate of 72.8 percent. This rate indicates a generally positive outcome for many applications in Art Unit 2100. The 72.8 percent allowance rate suggests that the examiner is open to granting patents when the applications meet the necessary criteria.

The interview lift is 17.8 percent. This positive lift suggests that interviews are a useful tool for resolving issues and reaching allowance. A 17.8 percent increase in the likelihood of success provides a clear strategic reason for practitioners to engage in direct dialogue with the examiner during the examination process.

The median days to allowance is 1228. This timeframe provides a standard expectation for the length of the grant process. Practitioners should prepare for a prosecution cycle of this length and consider using the 17.8 percent interview lift to help navigate the 1228 day timeline more effectively.

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

Performance Statistics

72.8%
Allow Rate
+17.8% vs TC avg
748
Total Applications
+17.8%
Interview Lift
1228
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 738 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.3%
§101 Eligibility
16.8%
§102 Novelty
56.2%
§103 Obviousness
7.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18591688 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING A COST ESTIMATION MODEL TO GENERATE RANKED CONTEXTUAL COUNTERFACTUALS Non-Final OA Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
18505892 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND DEDUCTION OF SERVICE LOGIC Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18549055 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18597472 SYSTEM FOR UNIVERSAL REMOTE MEDIA CONTROL IN A MULTI-USER, MULTI-PLATFORM, MULTI-DEVICE ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA Google LLC
18515561 Efficient Localization Using Graph Neural Networks Non-Final OA PayPal, Inc.
18475873 AI/ML OPERATION IN SINGLE AND MULTI-VENDOR SCENARIOS Final Rejection Nokia Technologies Oy
18475933 PASSING COMPLEX DATA OBJECTS IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROCESSES Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18406349 SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT INCLUDING DOUBLE PRECISION ASYNCHRONOUS NEURONS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF Non-Final OA ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18500350 DETERMINING TIME SERIES MODEL STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS IN REFRESHMENT Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18327473 GRAPH-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ALIGNMENT OF FUNCTIONAL ANNOTATIONS FROM DIFFERENT ONTOLOGIES USING BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCES Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17538567 POLICY DISTILLATION WITH OBSERVATION PRUNING Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18337907 Monotonic Machine Learning-Based Sub-Resolution Assist Features Non-Final OA Siemens Industry Software Inc.
18471996 GENERATING FACT TREES FOR DATA STORYTELLING Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
17979843 TABULAR DATA MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18636975 PHYSICAL RESERVOIR ELEMENT, PHYSICAL RESERVOIR, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Non-Final OA TDK Corporation
17233229 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN A SPECTROGRAM, SPECTRUM OR SIGNAL Final Rejection Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
18732157 SELECTIVE LEARNING OF INFORMATION FOR THE GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED RESPONSES BY A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE Non-Final OA OpenAI OpCo, LLC.
18737091 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMPILED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MODEL Non-Final OA ODIN AI TECHNOLOGIES LLC

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