Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SKHOUN, HICHAM

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2155 2161 2164 2169

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.3%
Allow Rate
+22.3% vs TC avg
369
Total Applications
+5.6%
Interview Lift
1136
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 344 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

13.6%
§101 Eligibility
27.2%
§102 Novelty
41.0%
§103 Obviousness
8.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18999328 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE Non-Final OA DENSO CORPORATION
18636079 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINISTICALLY ROUTING DATABASE REQUESTS TO DATABASE SERVERS Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18908294 PAIRING USER HEADPHONES WITH A LOCATION-BASED AUTOMATED ASSISTANT Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
17589395 FEATURE ENGINEERING SYSTEM Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18965966 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AVOID SENDING A MESSAGE TO THE UNINTENDED RECIPIENT Non-Final OA Adeia Guides Inc.
18668624 QUERY GENERATION BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUEST AND SCHEMA-RELATED CONTEXT DATA Final Rejection Snowflake Inc.
19060550 SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING SURVEILLANCE RECORDS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES Non-Final OA GENETEC INC.
19071618 FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA Nutanix, Inc.
19071587 FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS INCLUDING EXAMPLES PROVIDING METRICS ADJUSTED FOR APPLICATION OPERATION Non-Final OA NUTANIX, INC.
18426058 FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Final Rejection Nutanix, Inc.
19068763 PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR MIXING AUDIO TRACKS ACCORDING TO A TEMPLATE Non-Final OA Aries Adaptive Media, LLC
19025546 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING DATABASE PERMISSIONS Non-Final OA DataWalk Spólka Akcyjna
18336346 AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MESSAGING CONTENT METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection YAHOO ASSETS LLC
18989655 GRAPH SEARCH AND VISUALIZATION FOR FRAUDULENT TRANSACTION ANALYSIS Final Rejection Feedzai - Consultadoria e Inovação Tecnológica, S.A.
18901739 GENERATION OF A SEQUENCE OF RELATED TEXT-BASED SEARCH QUERIES Non-Final OA Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
18442664 MULTI-CLUSTER DISTRIBUTION Non-Final OA Kasten, Inc.
18394830 ONTOLOGY MAPPING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Semantic Technologies Pty Ltd
18465677 GROUNDING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS USING REAL-TIME CONTENT FEEDS AND REFERENCE DATA Final Rejection Bitvore Corp.
18088149 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING METADATA Final Rejection GiantChair, Inc.

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