Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, BRIAN M

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.4%
Allow Rate
-2.6% vs TC avg
280
Total Applications
+37.0%
Interview Lift
1555
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 246 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

24.4%
§101 Eligibility
12.9%
§102 Novelty
37.1%
§103 Obviousness
19.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19301756 MULTI-VARIABLE OPTIMIZATION FOR ROUTING REQUESTS TO LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection Citibank, N.A.
18003156 DETERMINATION SUPPORT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND TRAINING METHOD Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18253416 Improved Processing of Sequential Data via Machine Learning Models Featuring Temporal Residual Connections Non-Final OA Google LLC
18342113 INTERVAL-BASED OFFLINE POLICY EVALUATION WITHOUT DATA COVERAGE AND CORRECTLY-SPECIFIED MODELS Non-Final OA International Business Machines 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
18154716 AUTONOMOUS LEARNING PLATFORM FOR NOVEL FEATURE DISCOVERY Non-Final OA Visa International Service Association
17888014 Crossbar Mapping Of DNN Weights Final Rejection THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
18324820 RETROSPECTIVE SENSOR SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS Non-Final OA MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
18082612 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR RESERVOIR COMPUTING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
18227446 DETECTING ANOMALIES IN DEVICE TELEMETRY DATA USING DISTRIBUTIONAL DISTANCE DETERMINATIONS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
16373447 MEMORY EFFICIENT NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection NVIDIA CORPORATION
16912089 METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A RANK-ORDERED INSTRUCTION SET USING A RANKING PROCESS Final Rejection KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC
17128395 Data Validation Systems and Methods Final Rejection FMR LLC
18330473 PROCESSING LABELED DATA IN A MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION Non-Final OA Cylance Inc.
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
18075776 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A LOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF A DATA SET, AS WELL AS TRAINING METHOD Final Rejection dSPACE GmbH
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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