Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: SCHELL, JOSEPH O

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2114

This examiner grants 87% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

87.2%
Allow Rate
+32.2% vs TC avg
763
Total Applications
+8.7%
Interview Lift
969
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 749 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.4%
§101 Eligibility
12.9%
§102 Novelty
40.1%
§103 Obviousness
25.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18446137 Application-Managed Fault Detection For Cross-Region Replicated Object Stores Final Rejection PURE STORAGE, INC.
18635073 MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT ERROR CORRECTION CODE (ECC) DECODING AND A STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18441746 TEST FIXTURE, TEST APPARATUS, AND TEST SYSTEM FOR TESTING OR DEBUGGING MEMORY DEVICES Non-Final OA Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
18335958 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING DATA CENTER HARDWARE COMPONENT FAILURE USING MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
19091117 INTELLIGENT ERROR MONITORING AND ALERT Non-Final OA State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
17954090 AUTOMATIC INHERITANCE OF SIMILAR ALERT PROPERTIES Final Rejection ServiceNow, Inc.
18926934 Multi-Controller Drive Recovery Non-Final OA NetApp, Inc.
18646119 AUTOMATED REMEDIATION OF DEVIATIONS FROM BEST PRACTICES IN A DATA MANAGEMENT STORAGE SOLUTION Final Rejection NetApp, Inc.
17314339 SCALABLE ERROR MITIGATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18809302 FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER, OPERATING METHOD OF FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND STORAGE DEVICE CAPABLE OF PERFORMING DIFFERENT DIMENSION ERROR CORRECTION TO PROTECT DATA Final Rejection Silicon Motion, Inc.

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