Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: STARKS, WILBERT L

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2129

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.5%
Allow Rate
+20.5% vs TC avg
700
Total Applications
+4.4%
Interview Lift
1302
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 653 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

40.3%
§101 Eligibility
35.7%
§102 Novelty
13.1%
§103 Obviousness
6.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18301921 NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18327763 REASONING WITH CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE GRAPHS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18118061 CONDITIONING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS ON GRAPH AFFINITY MEASURE FEATURES Non-Final OA Google LLC
17909581 NEURAL NETWORK MODELS USING PEER-ATTENTION Final Rejection Google LLC
17449116 DYNAMICALLY GENERATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17488812 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND CAUSALITY DISCOVERY METHOD Non-Final OA ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
17356186 UNSUPERVISED METHOD FOR BASELINING AND ANOMALY DETECTION IN TIME-SERIES DATA FOR ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
18416755 NORMALIZING TEXT ATTRIBUTES FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18304251 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DATA-DRIVEN PREDICTIONS WITHIN A PROCESS SIMULATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Honeywell International Inc.
17215437 HUMAN-LIKE NON-PLAYER CHARACTER BEHAVIOR WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
17720966 TIME SERIES DATA SET SIMULATION Final Rejection The Bank of New York Mellon
19003949 USING ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULUS IN MACHINE LEARNING TO RECOGNIZE NEURAL ACTIVITIES, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF Final Rejection COGNTIV Neurosystems Ltd.
17500310 MODEL-AGNOSTIC APPROACH TO INTERPRETING SEQUENCE PREDICTIONS Final Rejection Feedzai - Consultadoria e Inovação Tecnológica, S.A.
17590677 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERING INFORMATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
17940948 Electronic decision support device for the implementation of a critical function or of an assistance function by an avionics system, associated method and computer program Final Rejection THALES
18163603 LARGE SCALE MASK OPTIMIZATION WITH CONVOLUTIONAL FOURIER NEURAL OPERATOR AND LITHO-GUIDED SELF LEARNING Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corp.
18648235 MACHINE-LEARNING BASED SOLVER OF COUPLED-PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Final Rejection ANSYS, INC.
18087897 METHODS AND MODULES FOR ACCELERATING INFERENCE VIA DISTRIBUTED DEVICES Final Rejection The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
18129167 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BETWEEN DIFFERENT ML MODEL ARCHITECTURES Non-Final OA INFOSYS LIMITED
17372430 SECURE ENVIRONMENT FOR A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATION PLATFORM Non-Final OA aixplain, Inc.
17219699 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATION PLATFORM Non-Final OA Aixplain, Inc.
17376009 DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS, DISCRIMINATION METHOD AND LEARNING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Premo, Inc.
17190832 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL NETWORK CODE GENERATION Final Rejection SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
17481568 DISCRETE VARIATIONAL AUTO-ENCODER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTERS Final Rejection D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.

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