Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2193

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

82.3%
Allow Rate
+27.3% vs TC avg
367
Total Applications
+18.3%
Interview Lift
835
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 345 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

8.6%
§101 Eligibility
3.6%
§102 Novelty
85.0%
§103 Obviousness
0.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18384348 REFACTORING NON-COMPLIANT CODE INTO COMPLIANT CODE Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18515606 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CENTRALIZED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND PIPELINE MANAGEMENT VIA EVENT DATA STREAMING Final Rejection BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
18381246 SYSTEM FOR REDUCING WORK DUPLICATION IN PARALLEL AND CONCURRENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS Final Rejection BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
18624058 UPDATE METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA FOR SETTLEMENT TERMINAL Non-Final OA NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
18428499 OPERATIONAL VALIDATION SYSTEM FOR SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENTS Non-Final OA State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
18626702 MODEL STACKING FOR SUPPORT TICKET CATEGORIZATION Non-Final OA SAP SE
18439508 LANGUAGE SERVER BASED CONTEXT PROVISIONING FOR CODE GENERATION WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA SAP SE
18055238 GENERATING EDITABLE EMAIL COMPONENTS UTILIZING A CONSTRAINT-BASED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18624155 PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SOFTWARE DEFECT PREDICTION MODEL Non-Final OA INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION FOUNDATION JEONBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
18415924 Method, System and Computer Program Product for Producing High-Level Report Data from Low-Level Data Extracted from a Version Control System Final Rejection minware Inc.

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