Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: SPIELER, WILLIAM

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2159 2169

This examiner grants 74% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

73.5%
Allow Rate
+18.5% vs TC avg
971
Total Applications
+9.8%
Interview Lift
1052
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 941 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.4%
§101 Eligibility
17.0%
§102 Novelty
32.8%
§103 Obviousness
17.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18401074 LEARNING TO COMBINE EXPLICIT DIVERSITY CONDITIONS FOR EFFECTIVE QUESTION ANSWER GENERATION Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18672254 NEURAL NETWORK MODEL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18895549 VIDEO RECOMMENDATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
18381337 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED MANIPULATION OF DATA STRUCTURES Non-Final OA Palantir Technologies Inc.
19302883 STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COPY PERFORMANCE OF STORAGE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.
18299651 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS USING CUSTOM FEATURE ENGINEERING Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18963705 UNIFIED EMBEDDING MODEL FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND CUSTOMIZATION Final Rejection Maplebear Inc.
18364714 Explainable Artificial Intelligence Toolset for Extracting Logic Inherent in Machine Learning Models Non-Final OA Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
18457794 UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO GENERATE ASPECT-BASED TRANSCRIPT SUMMARIES Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18822414 RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
17936867 RUNTIME CONTROL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MODEL PARAMETERS IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORM Non-Final OA Dell Products, L.P.
18846883 TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT DETECTION MODEL, AND CONTENT DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18770571 DEEP SEARCH BASED ON COMPONENTS OF 3-D MODELS Final Rejection Trimble Inc.
18991773 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERYING AN ENTERPRISE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM Final Rejection MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
18221284 QUANTUM DATABASE UPDATE OPERATIONS SYSTEM Non-Final OA Abu Dhabi University

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