Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2123 2124 2129

This examiner grants 80% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

80.5%
Allow Rate
+25.5% vs TC avg
733
Total Applications
+3.7%
Interview Lift
1156
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 706 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

31.0%
§101 Eligibility
14.2%
§102 Novelty
35.4%
§103 Obviousness
13.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18108292 ACCELERATOR FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
19365437 UNIQUE INPUT-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS FROM PARAMETER SETS HAVING A REDUCED SCALE AND A REDUCED NUMBER OF VARIABLES Non-Final OA Arrapoi, Inc.
17832086 METHOD, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR DATA PROCESSING Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17829867 ENTITY RESOLUTION INCORPORATING DATA FROM VARIOUS DATA SOURCES WHICH USES TOKENS AND NORMALIZES RECORDS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18368311 METHODS AND MECHANISMS FOR TRACE-BASED TRANSFER LEARNING Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
17986973 CREATING DECISION OPTIMIZATION SPECIFICATIONS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17363542 DECISION OPTIMIZATION UTILIZING TABULAR DATA Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18054837 QUERYING DATABASES WITH MACHINE LEARNING MODEL REFERENCES Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
17804991 DETERMINING TARGET POLICY PERFORMANCE VIA OFF-POLICY EVALUATION IN EMBEDDING SPACES Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
17962293 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED AFFIX-BASED DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION Non-Final OA VeriSign, Inc.
17092082 DATA DRIVEN FEATURIZATION AND MODELING Final Rejection Included Health, Inc.
17987737 MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS TO LEVERAGE BEHAVIOR-DEPENDENT PROCESSES Non-Final OA Cerebri AI Inc.
17506510 SYNTHETIC IDENTITY DETECTION Non-Final OA SentiLink Corp.

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