Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2156 2158

This examiner grants 36% of resolved cases

Analysis

Amanda Lynn Willis examines cases in Tech Center 2100 and Art Unit 2156. She has 358 resolved cases with an allowance rate of 35.8 percent. This rate is a metric for the examination process within her art unit. The resolved cases provide a degree of confidence in these performance metrics.

The interview lift of 26.3 percent is an increase over her base allowance rate of 35.8 percent. For applications facing rejection, an interview appears to be a path forward to resolve misunderstandings or negotiate claim amendments. However, the median days to allowance is 1718, indicating that reaching a grant requires a prosecution period of that length. Practitioners should prepare for this 1718 day timeline and consider the strategic use of interviews to overcome the 35.8 percent baseline allowance rate. The data suggests that direct communication is a factor for success in her docket, given the 26.3 percent lift. The 358 cases provide a substantial history for analysis.

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

Performance Statistics

35.8%
Allow Rate
-19.2% vs TC avg
384
Total Applications
+26.3%
Interview Lift
1718
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 358 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

13.9%
§101 Eligibility
12.6%
§102 Novelty
46.0%
§103 Obviousness
21.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18502143 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
19201748 PROVIDING CONTEXT FOR AN IMAGE Final Rejection Google LLC
18178255 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROMPT PROCESSING AND STORAGE SYSTEM Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
16785359 PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR RANKING ARGUMENT CONVINCINGNESS OF TEXT PASSAGES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17895730 TEXT MINING USING A RELATIVELY LOWER DIMENSION REPRESENTATION OF DOCUMENTS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
19000108 PROMPT ADAPTATION FOR MACHINE-LEARNING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) Non-Final OA Maplebear Inc.
19223319 FLEXIBLE OBJECT SELECTION FOR SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS Non-Final OA NetApp, Inc.
18631660 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OVERWRITING-BASED DELETION OF INFORMATION AND VERIFICATION OF DELETION Final Rejection Huazhong University of Science and Technology
19201798 PROVIDING GROUPS OF EVENTS TO A MESSAGE BUS BASED ON SIZE Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18935323 VECTOR DATABASE INDEXING Non-Final OA DevRev, Inc.
18046890 GENERATING SEARCH INSIGHT DATA Final Rejection Calabrio, Inc.

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