Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SHALU, ZELALEM W

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2145 2177

This examiner grants 29% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

28.7%
Allow Rate
-26.3% vs TC avg
142
Total Applications
+19.0%
Interview Lift
1155
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 108 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.3%
§101 Eligibility
8.1%
§102 Novelty
63.4%
§103 Obviousness
10.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17281444 File Transfer Method and Electronic Device Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
17535558 CREATIVITY METRICS AND GENERATIVE MODELS SAMPLING Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17721993 OPTIMIZING TRAINING DATA GENERATION FROM REAL-TIME PREDICTION SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA PAYPAL, INC.
17673377 TIERED INPUT STRUCTURES FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA PAYPAL, INC.
17232671 DATASET-FREE, APPROXIMATE MARGINAL PERTURBATION-BASED FEATURE ATTRIBUTIONS Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18359643 FEATURE MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
17357585 NEURAL NETWORK MEMORY FOR AUDIO Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18461555 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18052140 CONTRASTIVE CREDIBILITY PROPAGATION FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING Final Rejection Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
17584098 SCALABLE AND ADAPTIVE SELF-HEALING BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTOMATED OBSERVABILITY OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
17171365 MACHINE-LEARNING SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATING COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOR BY INTERACTING USERS WITHIN A GROUP Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
17804664 POLYNOMIAL-TIME LINEAR CROSS-ENTROPY BENCHMARKING Non-Final OA Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.
17713253 Digital simulator of data communication apparatus Non-Final OA MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
16110103 CROWDSOURCED TRAINING FOR COMMANDS MATCHING Non-Final OA Peloton Interactive, Inc.
16110108 ROBUST REPLAY OF DIGITAL ASSISTANT OPERATIONS Final Rejection PELOTON INTERACTIVE, INC.
17232667 Impact Score Based Target Action Assignment Non-Final OA Aible Inc.
16870498 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS SPEECH TO TEXT DATA PROCESSING Non-Final OA nVoq Incorporated
18070544 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATION OF SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION MODELS Non-Final OA Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy
16075824 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LEVEL CONTENT PLATFORM Non-Final OA PARTICLE MEDIA, INC.

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