Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, BRIAN M

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122

This examiner grants 53% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.6%
Allow Rate
-2.4% vs TC avg
283
Total Applications
+37.0%
Interview Lift
1553
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 253 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.0%
§101 Eligibility
4.9%
§102 Novelty
70.4%
§103 Obviousness
5.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18003156 DETERMINATION SUPPORT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND TRAINING METHOD Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18154716 AUTONOMOUS LEARNING PLATFORM FOR NOVEL FEATURE DISCOVERY Non-Final OA Visa International Service Association
18342113 INTERVAL-BASED OFFLINE POLICY EVALUATION WITHOUT DATA COVERAGE AND CORRECTLY-SPECIFIED MODELS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18514069 HARDWARE IP OPTIMIZED CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17560976 ADVERSARIAL SAMPLE PROTECTION FOR MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17836087 CLOUD SERVER, EDGE SERVER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INTELLIGENCE MODEL USING THE SAME Final Rejection ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18324820 RETROSPECTIVE SENSOR SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS Non-Final OA MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
18024901 MODEL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CLOUD INTELLIGENCE ASSETS HOLDING (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED
18082612 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR RESERVOIR COMPUTING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
16373447 MEMORY EFFICIENT NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection NVIDIA CORPORATION
17631487 PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD Final Rejection THALES
18015068 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF CONCEPT DRIFT Non-Final OA B. G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY
17128395 Data Validation Systems and Methods Final Rejection FMR LLC
18075776 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A LOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF A DATA SET, AS WELL AS TRAINING METHOD Final Rejection dSPACE GmbH
17287739 IDENTIFYING AN ISSUE WITH A SOFTWARE APPLICATION BASED ON PREDICTED USER ACTION SEQUENCES Non-Final OA Functionize, Inc.
18242352 ON-CHIP TRAINING OF MEMRISTOR CROSSBAR NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA University of Dayton
18350001 MACHINE LEARNING BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING TRAINING TIME OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA ParallelDots, Inc.
18116675 METHODOLOGY TO AUTOMATICALLY INCORPORATE FEEDBACK TO ENABLE SELF LEARNING IN NEURAL LEARNING ARTIFACTORIES Non-Final OA GLOBAL ELMEAST INC.
17319708 COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING PERFORMANCE OF A NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Xephor Solutions GmbH

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