Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: SPANN, COURTNEY P

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2183

This examiner grants 80% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

80.2%
Allow Rate
+25.2% vs TC avg
292
Total Applications
+21.2%
Interview Lift
1064
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 268 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.0%
§101 Eligibility
8.6%
§102 Novelty
46.2%
§103 Obviousness
26.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19000863 MEMORY DEVICE WITH ADDRESS GENERATOR AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18558978 CHANNEL-GUIDED NESTED LOOP TRANSFORMATION AND SCALAR REPLACEMENT Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18194252 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ACCELERATE MATRIX OPERATIONS USING DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS 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
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 Final Rejection 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
19044192 COMPUTATIONAL ARRAY MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEM USING NON-CONSECUTIVE DATA FORMATTING Non-Final OA Tesla, Inc.
18779177 TWO-DIMENSIONAL ZERO PADDING IN A STREAM OF MATRIX ELEMENTS Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18072053 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO SYNCHRONIZE MATRIX MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE MEMORY TRANSACTIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18899733 OUT-OF-ORDER FETCH AND DECODE PIPELINES Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18963825 PROCESSOR WITH SECURE BRANCH PREDICTION FUNCTION AND SECURE BRANCH PREDICTION METHOD Final Rejection NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY

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