Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: TRAN, DAVID HOANG

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2100 2121 2147 2483

This examiner grants 23% of resolved cases

Analysis

David Hoang Tran is an examiner in Tech Center 2400, Art Unit 2100. The examiner has 22 resolved cases. The data shows an allowance rate of 22.7 percent and an interview lift of 23.0 percent. The median days to allowance for these cases is 1633.

The 23.0 percent interview lift is a significant figure when compared to the 22.7 percent base allowance rate. This indicates that conducting an interview is a method for increasing the likelihood of an allowance. The 1633 day median pendency is the timeframe applicants can expect when navigating the resolved cases handled by this examiner in Art Unit 2100. Practitioners can consider how these metrics influence the overall prosecution timeline.

With 22 resolved cases, the examiner's statistics provide a view of the prosecution landscape. Practitioners can use the 22.7 percent allowance rate to assess the probability of a grant. The 23.0 percent lift and the Tech Center 2400 environment are factors for prosecution strategy. These data points help in setting expectations for clients.

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

Performance Statistics

22.7%
Allow Rate
-35.3% vs TC avg
57
Total Applications
+23.0%
Interview Lift
1633
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 22 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

28.1%
§101 Eligibility
7.9%
§102 Novelty
51.2%
§103 Obviousness
11.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18486247 METHODS FOR TRAINING AND DEPLOYING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR USE WITH PREDICTING A TASK OUTPUT Non-Final OA Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
17317806 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MANUFACTURING DEFECTS Non-Final OA Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
17360459 Neural Network System and Data Processing Technology Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18551847 Machine Learning Model for Detecting Out-Of-Distribution Inputs Non-Final OA Google LLC
18431458 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISCRIMINATIVE SEMANTIC TRANSFER AND PHYSICS-INSPIRED OPTIMIZATION OF FEATURES IN DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17649578 System and Method for Automated Transfer Learning with Domain Disentanglement Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
17476001 FEATURE SELECTION USING FEATURE-RANKING BASED OPTIMIZATION MODELS Final Rejection PayPal, Inc.
18418624 MOE MODEL FROM BLOCK SPARSE COMPUTATION'S POINT OF VIEW Non-Final OA TENCENT AMERICA LLC
18044736 DYNAMIC GRAPH NODE EMBEDDING VIA LIGHT CONVOLUTION Final Rejection VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
18194729 RESOURCE-EFFICIENT PULSE-BASED VARIATIONAL QUANTUM ALGORITHM Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17548182 COMPUTER OPTIMIZATION OF TASK PERFORMANCE THROUGH DYNAMIC SENSING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17357082 DYNAMIC CONTAINER CREATION BASED ON IDENTIFIED CONTEXTUAL NEED Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17134416 ANNOTATION QUALITY GRADING OF MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING SETS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17576724 SUBCOMPONENT MODEL TRAINING Final Rejection salesforce.com, inc.
16928888 INTENT-BASED COMMAND RECOMMENDATION GENERATION IN AN ANALYTICS SYSTEM Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
17505384 IMAGE GENERATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
17491341 OPTIMIZING CONCURRENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING USING DERIVED NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
17374664 NEURAL NETWORK EVALUATION Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
17211687 LATENT-VARIABLE GENERATIVE MODEL WITH A NOISE CONTRASTIVE PRIOR Final Rejection NVIDIA CORPORATION
18135873 Featureless Image Categorization and Recognition using Hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Image Structural Properties for System Performance Optimization Final Rejection Bank of America Corporation
18060104 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INFERENCE MODELS BASED ON INFERENCE GENERATION FREQUENCIES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17121763 CLASSIFICATION DEVICE AND CLASSIFICATION METHOD BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Industrial Technology Research Institute

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