Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SOMERS, MARC S

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2159 2169

This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

64.7%
Allow Rate
+9.7% vs TC avg
599
Total Applications
+34.6%
Interview Lift
1460
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 563 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

18.0%
§101 Eligibility
10.1%
§102 Novelty
47.9%
§103 Obviousness
15.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18257881 COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18790351 QUANTUM DRIVEN USER SPECIFIC REAL TIME DYNAMIC VIDEO RENDERING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
18026327 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOMMENDING GOODS, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAINING GOODS KNOWLEDGE GRAPH, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAINING MODEL Final Rejection BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
18783190 METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18360633 TEXTUALLY GUIDED CONSTRAINED POLICY OPTIMIZATION FOR SAFE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
19227097 DATABASE SYSTEM WITH QUERY AND RESPONSE SUBSYSTEM Non-Final OA Ocient Holdings LLC
19207178 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS Non-Final OA Ocient Holdings LLC
18173202 TEACHING DEVICE, TEACHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
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.
18812520 UNIFIED XML INDEXING Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18141305 SERVERLESS DATA-REPRESENTATION-AS-A-SERVICE (DRAAS) TO ENABLE BUILDING GENERAL MULTI-MODAL INPUT DATA ML FLOWS Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
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 Non-Final OA NetApp, Inc.
17890494 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERSIONING A GRAPH DATABASE Non-Final OA OneTrust, LLC
17749776 PREDICTIVE DATA SOURCE SELECTION FOR REQUEST HANDLING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA AMADEUS S.A.S.
18239759 NEURAL NETWORK OPTIMIZATION WITH PREVIEW MECHANISM Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18675451 DOCUMENT-BASED PRESENTATION GENERATION Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
18465971 DETECTING CITED WITH CONNECTIONS IN LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND GENERATING RECORDS OF SAME Final Rejection Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
17661066 SEMI-MATERIALIZED VIEWS Non-Final OA TERADATA US, INC.
17914297 FEDERATED MIXTURE MODELS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.

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