Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: STARKS, WILBERT L

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2129

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

74.9%
Allow Rate
+19.9% vs TC avg
706
Total Applications
+3.7%
Interview Lift
1245
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 662 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

33.2%
§101 Eligibility
40.2%
§102 Novelty
15.0%
§103 Obviousness
6.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17468819 METHOD OF PREDICTING SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND METHOD OF TESTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18696052 Learning the Joint Distribution of Two Sequences Using Little or No Paired Data Non-Final OA Google LLC
18417556 Multi-Layer Perceptron Architecture For Times Series Forecasting Non-Final OA Google LLC
18118061 CONDITIONING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS ON GRAPH AFFINITY MEASURE FEATURES Final Rejection Google LLC
18566481 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING BASED POST-TRAINING SPARSIFICATION Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17190832 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL NETWORK CODE GENERATION Final Rejection SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
18696380 ONLINE MATCHING OPTIMIZATION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NTT. Inc.
18483447 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFERENCING VIA DELTA MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18327763 REASONING WITH CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE GRAPHS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18421055 SPIKE NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18696757 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRAINING DEEP LEARNING MODEL, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
18304251 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DATA-DRIVEN PREDICTIONS WITHIN A PROCESS SIMULATION SYSTEM Final Rejection Honeywell International Inc.
18163603 LARGE SCALE MASK OPTIMIZATION WITH CONVOLUTIONAL FOURIER NEURAL OPERATOR AND LITHO-GUIDED SELF LEARNING Final Rejection NVIDIA Corp.
18565510 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
18129167 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BETWEEN DIFFERENT ML MODEL ARCHITECTURES Final Rejection INFOSYS LIMITED
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
18573793 FEDERATED REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH CONSISTENCY REGULARIZATION Non-Final OA Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
18180185 PORTING EXPLANATIONS BETWEEN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17215437 HUMAN-LIKE NON-PLAYER CHARACTER BEHAVIOR WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
19003949 USING ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULUS IN MACHINE LEARNING TO RECOGNIZE NEURAL ACTIVITIES, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF Final Rejection COGNTIV Neurosystems Ltd.
18648235 MACHINE-LEARNING BASED SOLVER OF COUPLED-PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Final Rejection ANSYS, INC.
17219699 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATION PLATFORM Final Rejection Aixplain, Inc.

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