Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: TAN, DAVID H

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2141 2142 2145 2148 2171 2172 2177 4100

This examiner grants 32% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

32.1%
Allow Rate
-27.9% vs TC avg
143
Total Applications
+17.1%
Interview Lift
1458
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 106 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

6.0%
§101 Eligibility
20.6%
§102 Novelty
69.3%
§103 Obviousness
3.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17721761 FEATURE EVALUATIONS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection PAYPAL, INC.
17023458 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCALABLE AND DECENTRALIZED INCREMENTAL MACHINE LEARNING WHICH PROTECTS DATA PRIVACY Final Rejection Siemens Healthcare GmbH
18399124 Creating, Assigning, and Interacting with Action Items Related to Collaborative Tasks Non-Final OA Procore Technologies, Inc.
17952107 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORK CENTER Non-Final OA SAP SE
18422819 Systems and Methods for Constrained Text Generation Using Large Language Models Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
17489284 CONFIGURING DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN APPLICATION ELEMENTS Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
18339641 DETECTING DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection Rakuten Group, Inc.
17587793 OPTIMIZATION OF TUNING FOR MODELS USED FOR MULTIPLE PREDICTION GENERATION Non-Final OA Databricks, Inc.
18187864 OBJECT AFFINITY DETERMINATION AND SCORING SYSTEM Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18497453 POWER-SPACE EFFICIENT PHOTONIC FOURIER CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
17456243 ASSISTED COLLABORATIVE NAVIGATION IN SCREEN SHARE ENVIRONMENTS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17030072 LEARNING MODEL GENERATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, EYEGLASS LENS SELECTION SUPPORT METHOD, AND EYEGLASS LENS SELECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM Final Rejection HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
17891476 MIXED SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION Non-Final OA Accenture Global Solutions Limited
18286504 MULTI-OBJECTIVE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING USING WEIGHTED POLICY PROJECTION Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited

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