Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2156 2164 2167

This examiner grants 53% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

53.4%
Allow Rate
-1.6% vs TC avg
512
Total Applications
+25.8%
Interview Lift
1413
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 481 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

17.0%
§101 Eligibility
14.8%
§102 Novelty
47.1%
§103 Obviousness
13.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18820794 GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE ITEM RANKING Non-Final OA Walmart Apollo, LLC
18505768 METADATA RECOMMENDATIONS GENERATION Non-Final OA American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
18740009 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHAMBER MATCHING USING PHASE-BASED SCORING Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
17611870 IMPROVED DIVERSITY RANKING SELECTION METHODS Final Rejection PAYPAL, INC.
19050687 RE-PERFORMING DECENTRALIZED EXECUTION OF A SET OF OPERATORS VIA A DATABASE SYSTEM BASED ON IMPLEMENTING A REPLAY OPERATOR Final Rejection Ocient Holdings LLC
18513285 RECOVERY FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE DATA Non-Final OA Rubrik, Inc.
18333949 METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Non-Final OA Kioxia Corporation
18812834 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUERYING LOG INFORMATION, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
19028479 PERMISSIONS-CONSTRAINED DYNAMIC FACETING OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Final Rejection Hyland UK Operations Limited
17553465 Peer Recovery From Remote Storage Non-Final OA Elasticsearch B.V.
18784799 LEVERAGING PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DATASET BUILDING Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18669063 DYNAMIC ADAPTABILITY TECHNIQUES IN SHARED DATA MODELS Non-Final OA Delphi.IO Ltd.
18583384 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IMPORTING AND PROCESSING AMALGAMATED DATA INTO DATABASES Non-Final OA NTT DATA Services, LLC
18193541 MULTI-ACCESS POINT ITEM DATA EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTING SYSTEM Final Rejection Patricia M. Healy
17854134 METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION A LEARNING ABILITY OF AN USER BASED ON SEARCH INFORMATION OF THE USER Final Rejection Socra AI Inc.

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