Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: WERNER, MARSHALL L

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2125 2152

This examiner grants 66% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

66.2%
Allow Rate
+11.2% vs TC avg
267
Total Applications
+43.6%
Interview Lift
1389
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 213 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

28.0%
§101 Eligibility
6.8%
§102 Novelty
40.5%
§103 Obviousness
21.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18044661 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18542424 ADAPTIVE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK SELECTION TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18477546 NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH OVER COMPLEX BLOCK ARCHITECTURES Non-Final OA Google LLC
18237331 QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Google LLC
17966568 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE MODEL TRAINING USING UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION WITH MULTI-SOURCE META-DISTILLATION Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18297850 MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, PROCESSING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18500014 PRE-PROCESSING FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORK COMPILATION USING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18135958 ACCELERATING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH LOW PRECISION-BASED MULTIPLICATION AND EXPLOITING SPARSITY IN HIGHER ORDER BITS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18169699 MIXTURE-OF-EXPERT BASED NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA PAYPAL, INC.
17957609 Method of Hierarchical Machine Learning for an Industrial Plant Machine Learning System Final Rejection ABB Schweiz AG
18701935 CALCULATION DEVICE, CALCULATION METHOD, AND CALCULATION PROGRAM Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
18628705 PREDICTING IMPLICIT DEVICE PARAMETERS FOR QUANTUM DEVICES USING TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18298791 DUAL-MOMENTUM GRADIENT OPTIMIZATION WITH REDUCED MEMORY REQUIREMENTS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17219350 IMITATION TRAINING USING SYNTHETIC DATA Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
17226908 EXECUTION OF APPLICATIONS WITH NEXT BEST MODELS APPLIED TO DATA Non-Final OA AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
18060089 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DEPLOYMENT OF RELATED INFERENCE MODELS Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18498273 SYNTHESIS OF QUANTUM CIRCUITS FOR PREPARING SUPERPOSED STATES Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17453121 USING LEARNED PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE TO GUIDE FEATURE ENGINEERING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17452287 AUTOMATED TIME SERIES FORECASTING PIPELINE RANKING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
16409736 AI-Based Context Evaluation Engine Apparatuses, Methods and Systems Non-Final OA FMR LLC
17797610 REAL-TIME DNN EXECUTION FRAMEWORK ON MOBILE DEVICES WITH BLOCK-BASED COLUMN-ROW PRUNING Non-Final OA College of William & Mary

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