Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: VAUGHN, RYAN C

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2123 2125 2127 2812 4100

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Analysis

Ryan C. Vaughn works in Art Unit 2123 of Tech Center 4100, with 257 resolved cases. The allowance rate is 61.5%, and the median days to allowance is 1399. This indicates a moderate success rate and a somewhat long timeline for the 257 resolved cases. Applicants can expect a fair examination process, though it may take a significant amount of time to reach a final resolution.

The interview lift of 18.2% suggests that interviews are a helpful tool for improving the 61.5% baseline. This 18.2% lift indicates that the examiner is responsive to verbal advocacy and technical discussions. For the 257 resolved cases, the data supports the use of interviews to secure an allowance and resolve technical disagreements. The 1399-day median pendency should be considered when planning the prosecution strategy, and practitioners may find that direct engagement helps in navigating the longer timeline. A strategy that incorporates interviews early in the process may be the most effective way to improve the probability of success and potentially shorten the prosecution cycle in Art Unit 2123.

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

Performance Statistics

61.5%
Allow Rate
+1.5% vs TC avg
295
Total Applications
+18.2%
Interview Lift
1399
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 257 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.8%
§101 Eligibility
7.9%
§102 Novelty
42.2%
§103 Obviousness
22.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17523977 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH ELECTRONIC MEMORY COPYING OF A NATURAL NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18563594 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING DEEP LEARNING MODEL AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
18458220 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18153655 Method and Device Used for Providing and Evaulating a Sensor Model for Change Point Detection Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17893050 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18498738 DATA GENERATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17198624 IDENTIFYING TRENDS USING EMBEDDING DRIFT OVER TIME Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18221454 NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18227758 APPROXIMATE CONFUSION MATRIX FOR MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18269734 TRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18035333 MANAGING TRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18311884 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASPHALTENE ANOMALY PREDICTION Non-Final OA Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
18477873 ERROR MITIGATED NETWORKS OF FEED-FORWARD OPERATIONS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18178240 NOISE LEARNING IN DYNAMIC QUANTUM CIRCUITS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17962330 TRAINING A BIDIRECTIONAL ENCODER REPRESENTATIONS FROM TRANSFORMERS (BERT) MODEL TO GENERATE A SOFTWARE REPRESENTATION FROM AN INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATION OF A SOFTWARE PACKAGE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17452517 ADAPTIVE DRIFT DFETECTION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR NON-STATIONARY DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18526214 METHOD OF ASSESSING INPUT-OUTPUT DATASETS USING NEIGHBORHOOD CRITERIA IN THE INPUT SPACE AND THE OUTPUT SPACE Final Rejection Siemens Mobility GmbH
18151548 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ESTIMATE PERFORMANCE OF SESSION BASED RECOMMENDATION MODEL LAYERS ON FPGA Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18677751 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROTECTION AGAINST EMBEDDING INVERSION ATTACK IN RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION Non-Final OA Rubrik, Inc.
18271686 DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR WEIGHTED KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Final Rejection HITACHI, LTD.
18648325 SERVER APPARATUS FOR DRIVING ASSISTANCE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME Non-Final OA HL KLEMOVE CORP.
18098061 TECHNIQUES FOR PRUNING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
16913160 INTERACTION DETERMINATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
16428760 TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING SELECTIVE WEIGHT UPDATES Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18381360 Temporal Convolution-Readout for Random Recurrent Neural Networks Non-Final OA The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
17783978 CONSTRUCTING AND OPERATING AN ARTIFICIAL RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection INAIT SA

Facing This Examiner?

IP Author analyzes examiner patterns and generates tailored response strategies with the highest chance of allowance.

Build Your Strategy

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month