Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: SOMERS, MARC S

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2159 2161 2169

This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

64.9%
Allow Rate
+9.9% vs TC avg
604
Total Applications
+34.4%
Interview Lift
1443
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 573 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.2%
§101 Eligibility
9.4%
§102 Novelty
48.0%
§103 Obviousness
16.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18257881 COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18173202 TEACHING DEVICE, TEACHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18783190 METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
17914297 FEDERATED MIXTURE MODELS Final Rejection QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
18185666 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING DIGITAL ASSISTANT Non-Final OA SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
18409038 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TIMELY AND RELEVANT SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES FOR A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A MEDIA ASSET WHO IS UNKNOWN SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE MEDIA ASSET Final Rejection Adeia Guides Inc.
17783161 Electronic Device Having Detection Device, Arithmetic Device, Display, And Housing Non-Final OA Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
18812520 UNIFIED XML INDEXING Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
17749776 PREDICTIVE DATA SOURCE SELECTION FOR REQUEST HANDLING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA AMADEUS S.A.S.
18408668 NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLER Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18239759 NEURAL NETWORK OPTIMIZATION WITH PREVIEW MECHANISM Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
19053760 Artificial Intelligence Agent Retrieval Augmented Generation In A Database System Final Rejection Salesforce, Inc.
18785773 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO HANDLE DEPENDENT DATA, CONFLICTING DATA, OR METADATA OPERATIONS ON A DUAL COPY CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SIMULATANEOUS READ-WRITE ABILITY ON EACH COPY Final Rejection NetApp, Inc.
19207178 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS Non-Final OA Ocient Holdings LLC
19190337 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS Non-Final OA Ocient Holdings LLC
18675451 DOCUMENT-BASED PRESENTATION GENERATION Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
18360633 TEXTUALLY GUIDED CONSTRAINED POLICY OPTIMIZATION FOR SAFE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18465971 DETECTING CITED WITH CONNECTIONS IN LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND GENERATING RECORDS OF SAME Non-Final OA Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
17661066 SEMI-MATERIALIZED VIEWS Non-Final OA TERADATA US, INC.

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