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Last updated: October 26, 2026

Brian M Smith, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as SMITH, BRIAN M

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2122

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Analysis

SMITH, BRIAN M works in Tech Center 2100 and Art Unit 2100. He has 263 resolved cases, with a 52.5% allowance rate and a 36.9% interview lift. The median time to allowance is 1555 days.

His listed companies are Capital One Services LLC, Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd., and Google LLC. His listed firms are FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC, and SUGHRUE MION, PLLC. The combination of the allowance rate and interview lift gives practitioners reason to consider active interview use, while the median time warrants early prosecution planning.

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

Performance Statistics

52.5%
Allow Rate
-2.5% vs TC avg
310
Total Applications
+36.9%
Interview Lift
1555
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 263 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

24.4%
§101 Eligibility
13.0%
§102 Novelty
37.0%
§103 Obviousness
20.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18713366 IMPROVING COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-AGENTS Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18627086 MACHINE LEARNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING HOURS OF OPERATION Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18597771 Decentralized Group Privacy in Cross-Silo Federated Learning Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18783342 METHOD FOR QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18590575 INFERRED USER INTENTION NOTIFICATIONS Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18524852 PRIVACY PRESERVING JOINT TRAINING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18783159 QUANTUM FEATURE MAPPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
19303889 Neural Network Representation Formats Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18417351 APPARATUS & METHOD FOR GENERATING FEATURE EMBEDDINGS Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18742208 DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, FIRST DEVICE, AND SECOND DEVICE Non-Final OA VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
18342113 INTERVAL-BASED OFFLINE POLICY EVALUATION WITHOUT DATA COVERAGE AND CORRECTLY-SPECIFIED MODELS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18399044 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROFILE GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF INTEREST Non-Final OA Nielsen Consumer LLC
18602365 METHOD OF TRAINING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL BY USING HARDWARE ACCELERATOR, AND HARDWARE ACCELERATOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA Korea University Research and Business Foundation

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Brian M Smith's allowance rate?

52.5% of resolved applications examined by Brian M Smith were allowed (263 resolved cases), compared with 38.8% across Art Unit 2100 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Brian M Smith?

This examiner's interview lift is +36.9 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Brian M Smith take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Brian M Smith took 1,555 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Brian M Smith work in?

Brian M Smith examines applications in Art Unit 2100 in Tech Center 2100 (Computing & Software).

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