Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 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

Analysis

David H Tan is an examiner in Art Unit 2141 within Tech Center 4100. The examiner has 109 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 32.1 percent. This rate suggests that securing a patent grant is a challenging process, as a majority of applications do not reach allowance. The interview lift is 16.6 percent, showing that direct communication with the examiner is a useful strategy for advancing prosecution. Practitioners should consider the 16.6 percent interview lift when deciding how to respond to rejections.

The median days to allowance is 1484. This figure provides a benchmark for the expected duration of the prosecution process for successful applications. The 32.1 percent allowance rate and 1484-day median offer a clear statistical context for managing applications in this unit. These data points, derived from 109 resolved cases, allow for a data-grounded approach to developing a prosecution strategy that aligns with the examiner's historical performance. Applicants should be prepared for the 1484-day timeframe in Tech Center 4100.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

32.1%
Allow Rate
-27.9% vs TC avg
143
Total Applications
+16.6%
Interview Lift
1484
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 109 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.7%
§101 Eligibility
20.0%
§102 Novelty
70.1%
§103 Obviousness
3.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18666930 CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIPARTITE GRAPH, AND DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIPARTITE GRAPH Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18424633 TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS BY RESETTING DORMANT NEURONS Non-Final OA Google LLC
18441318 HIGH-DIMENSIONAL VECTOR SPACE ENCODING TECHNIQUES FOR HYPERDIMENSIONAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
17721761 FEATURE EVALUATIONS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA PAYPAL, INC.
18399124 Creating, Assigning, and Interacting with Action Items Related to Collaborative Tasks Non-Final OA Procore Technologies, Inc.
17023458 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCALABLE AND DECENTRALIZED INCREMENTAL MACHINE LEARNING WHICH PROTECTS DATA PRIVACY Final Rejection Siemens Healthcare GmbH
17106029 CAPTURING FEATURE ATTRIBUTION IN MACHINE LEARNING PIPELINES Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18585753 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING USING ACCESIBILITY DATA Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18574623 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MESSAGE PROCESSING Final Rejection Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
17456243 ASSISTED COLLABORATIVE NAVIGATION IN SCREEN SHARE ENVIRONMENTS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
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.
17891476 MIXED SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION Non-Final OA Accenture Global Solutions Limited
17952107 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORK CENTER Non-Final OA SAP SE
18187864 OBJECT AFFINITY DETERMINATION AND SCORING SYSTEM Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18339641 DETECTING DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Rakuten Group, Inc.
17949180 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING USING CONTRASTIVE LOSSES Non-Final OA NAVER CORPORATION
18497453 POWER-SPACE EFFICIENT PHOTONIC FOURIER CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
17030072 LEARNING MODEL GENERATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, EYEGLASS LENS SELECTION SUPPORT METHOD, AND EYEGLASS LENS SELECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM Final Rejection HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
18127551 ALLOCATING COMPUTING RESOURCES BETWEEN MODEL SIZE AND TRAINING DATA DURING TRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection DeepMind Technologies Limited
17861407 CONFIGURATION OF ASSET MONITORING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

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