Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: SPANN, COURTNEY P

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2183

This examiner grants 80% of resolved cases

Analysis

Courtney P Spann works in Tech Center 2100 and Art Unit 2122, managing a portfolio of 269 resolved cases. The allowance rate of 79.9% is quite high, indicating a favorable environment for patent grants. This efficiency is supported by a median days to allowance of 1063, which establishes a clear timeline for applicants. The 269 resolved cases provide a statistically significant basis for these trends.

The interview lift of 22.0% is a significant factor for practitioners to consider. Even with a strong baseline allowance rate of 79.9%, the 22.0% lift suggests that interviews are highly effective at resolving remaining issues and securing an allowance. In the context of 269 resolved cases, this lift demonstrates a consistent benefit to verbal advocacy. Applicants should view the 1063 days to allowance as a standard duration that can be optimized through the 22.0% lift. The data from Art Unit 2122 suggests that while the examiner is generally inclined toward allowance, direct engagement provides a substantial additional advantage for securing a grant.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

80.0%
Allow Rate
+25.0% vs TC avg
296
Total Applications
+22.1%
Interview Lift
1061
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 270 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.6%
§101 Eligibility
8.8%
§102 Novelty
46.0%
§103 Obviousness
26.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18968692 PROCESSOR INSTRUCTION DISPATCH CONFIGURATION Non-Final OA Groq, Inc.
19080438 INSTRUCTIONS FOR FUSED MULTIPLY-ADD OPERATIONS WITH VARIABLE PRECISION INPUT OPERANDS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18336826 CONFIGURABLE PROCESSING RESOURCE EVENT FILTER FOR GPU HARDWARE-BASED PERFORMANCE MONITORING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18193413 VECTOR MULTIPLY-ADD/SUBTRACT WITH INTERMEDIATE ROUNDING Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18172943 SPECIFYING A PROCESSOR WITH ASSURED AND OPPORTUNISTIC CORES Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18091628 INSTRUCTIONS AND SUPPORT FOR CONDITIONAL COMPARISON AND TEST Final Rejection INTEL CORPORATION
18058114 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE TO ACCELERATE GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS WITH OPTIMIZED SIMD-MIMD PROCESSING ELEMENTS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17991811 EXECUTABLE PASSING USING MAILBOX REGISTERS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18055315 ACCELERATING DATA LOAD AND COMPUTATION IN FRONTEND CONVOLUTIONAL LAYER Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17958367 8-BIT FLOATING POINT COMPARISON INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17953184 SHORT PIPELINE FOR FAST RECOVERY FROM A BRANCH MISPREDICTION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17559804 SIGNATURE-BASED AUTOMATIC OFFLOAD TO HARDWARE ACCELERATORS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17985869 COMPLEX NUMBER MATRIX MULTIPLICATION PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS Final Rejection Altera Corporation
18874316 ACCELERATOR OFFLOAD DEVICE, ACCELERATOR OFFLOAD METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
19108327 EVENT SIGNALS Non-Final OA Siemens Industry Software Inc.
19075937 PROCESSOR MICRO-ARCHITECTURE FOR REPEATED INSTRUCTION EXECUTION Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
19027541 Forming Constant Extensions in the Same Execute Packet in a VLIW Processor Final Rejection TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
19015274 PREVENTING INSTRUCTIONS FROM BEING PERFORMED Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18963825 PROCESSOR WITH SECURE BRANCH PREDICTION FUNCTION AND SECURE BRANCH PREDICTION METHOD Final Rejection NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
18919520 COMPUTATIONAL MEMORY WITH COOPERATION AMONG ROWS OF PROCESSING ELEMENTS AND MEMORY THEREOF Non-Final OA At-memory Computing LP

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