Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 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
704
Total Applications
+4.1%
Interview Lift
1242
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 656 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

29.1%
§101 Eligibility
46.6%
§102 Novelty
19.2%
§103 Obviousness
2.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17311520 SERVER AND LEARNING SYSTEM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18405537 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR THE GENERATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF EFFICIENCY DATA Final Rejection The Strategic Coach Inc.
18327763 REASONING WITH CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE GRAPHS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18327821 PARALLELIZATION PLAN GENERATION FOR A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18109340 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
17508117 INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM DOCUMENT CORPORA Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
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
18304251 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DATA-DRIVEN PREDICTIONS WITHIN A PROCESS SIMULATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Honeywell International Inc.
17528514 PROCESSING DYNAMIC DATA WITHIN AN ADAPTIVE ORACLE-TRAINED LEARNING SYSTEM USING DYNAMIC DATA SET DISTRIBUTION OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18416755 NORMALIZING TEXT ATTRIBUTES FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, 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
17636635 ANOMALY DETECTION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PRODUCT OF MANUFACTURE Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
17608480 DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION PROGRAM Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
19003949 USING ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULUS IN MACHINE LEARNING TO RECOGNIZE NEURAL ACTIVITIES, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF Final Rejection COGNTIV Neurosystems 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
18334460 QUANTIZATION RECOGNITION TRAINING METHOD OF NEURAL NETWORK THAT SUPPLEMENTS LIMITATIONS OF GRADIENT-BASED LEARNING BY ADDING GRADIENT-INDIPENDENT UPDATE Non-Final OA MOBILINT INC.
17190832 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL NETWORK CODE GENERATION Final Rejection SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
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
17404037 GAME THEORETIC DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATION Final Rejection aixplain, Inc.
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.
17500310 MODEL-AGNOSTIC APPROACH TO INTERPRETING SEQUENCE PREDICTIONS Final Rejection Feedzai - Consultadoria e Inovação Tecnológica, S.A.
17481568 DISCRETE VARIATIONAL AUTO-ENCODER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTERS Final Rejection D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
17376009 DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS, DISCRIMINATION METHOD AND LEARNING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Premo, Inc.

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