Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: WOOLWINE, SHANE D

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2124 2135 2156 2185 2425

This examiner grants 86% of resolved cases

Analysis

Examiner Shane D. Woolwine works in Art Unit 2124 within Tech Center 2400. The examiner has 384 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 86.5%. This rate reflects the proportion of applications reaching a final disposition that result in a patent grant. The median days to allowance is 1037, which is the recorded timeframe for the prosecution history. Practitioners can note this 1037 figure when setting expectations for the duration of the process. The 384 resolved cases provide the data for these observations.

The interview lift for this examiner is 20.6%. This figure indicates the change in the probability of allowance when an interview is conducted. With the 20.6% lift and the 86.5% allowance rate, practitioners can evaluate the impact of direct communication on their strategy. These metrics are the available data for this docket in Art Unit 2124. The recorded data points provide the basis for understanding the prosecution environment under this examiner. This analysis relies on the specific figures provided for this profile.

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

Performance Statistics

86.5%
Allow Rate
+28.5% vs TC avg
393
Total Applications
+20.6%
Interview Lift
1037
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 384 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

13.3%
§101 Eligibility
16.1%
§102 Novelty
49.9%
§103 Obviousness
12.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17455075 Training Method for Convolutional Neural Network and System Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18469909 RE-ARRANGING FEED FORWARD NETWORKS (FFNs) IN TRANSFORMER-BASED MODELS Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18405025 PERFORMING A DATA PROCESSING TASK ON A DATA SET USING PRETRAINED LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18511170 SIMULTANEOUS QUANTUM JOB EXECUTION WITH QUBIT ISOLATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18456057 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK EMULATION OF HOTSPOTS Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18389974 REDUCTION OF STUCK CHANNELS AT A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Xilinx Inc.

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