Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, BRIAN M

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2122

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Analysis

Brian M. Smith has 263 resolved cases in Art Unit 2100. He has an allowance rate of 52.5% and a median days to allowance of 1555. These metrics suggest a moderately difficult and slow process in Tech Center 2100. The 263 cases provide a solid foundation for understanding his examination tendencies.

The interview lift of 36.9% is significant. It indicates that interviews can substantially improve the 52.5% allowance rate and are a productive use of time. Practitioners should use interviews to navigate the 1555-day timeline and increase the chances of a favorable outcome. The 36.9% lift suggests that the examiner is open to verbal arguments, which can help resolve rejections that might otherwise persist through the 1555-day median duration of prosecution.

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
289
Total Applications
+36.9%
Interview Lift
1555
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 263 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

23.9%
§101 Eligibility
12.9%
§102 Novelty
37.2%
§103 Obviousness
19.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18196127 Neural Networks with Local Converging Inputs (NNLCI) for Solving Differential Equations Non-Final OA Georgia Tech Research Corporation
18590575 INFERRED USER INTENTION NOTIFICATIONS Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18627086 MACHINE LEARNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING HOURS OF OPERATION Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18524852 PRIVACY PRESERVING JOINT TRAINING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18514069 HARDWARE IP OPTIMIZED CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17211387 ADVERSE FEATURES NEUTRALIZATION IN MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection PAYPAL, INC.
19303889 Neural Network Representation Formats Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18597771 Decentralized Group Privacy in Cross-Silo Federated Learning Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18680823 TRAINING PREDICTIVE MODELS BASED ON REWARD SIGNALS Non-Final OA INTUIT INC.
18783342 METHOD FOR QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18713366 IMPROVING COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-AGENTS Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
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 Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17384180 FEDERATED DATA STANDARDIZATION USING DATA PRIVACY TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18324820 RETROSPECTIVE SENSOR SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS Final Rejection MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
18227446 DETECTING ANOMALIES IN DEVICE TELEMETRY DATA USING DISTRIBUTIONAL DISTANCE DETERMINATIONS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18507766 METHOD FOR PROCESSING GRAPH AND SYSTEM THEREFOR Non-Final OA Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.
18431370 USER SELECTION PREDICTION BASED ON GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK AND USER SELECTION SEQUENCE Non-Final OA Home Depot Product Authority, 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
18836930 ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MAKING A COUPLING TO A QUBIT Non-Final OA IQM FINLAND OY

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