Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: WU, NICHOLAS S

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2129 2141 2148 2182

This examiner grants 51% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

50.9%
Allow Rate
-4.1% vs TC avg
88
Total Applications
+31.8%
Interview Lift
1469
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 53 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

25.6%
§101 Eligibility
3.9%
§102 Novelty
53.7%
§103 Obviousness
16.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18319096 HYPERGRAPH-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING RECOMMENDATIONS Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17916362 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18388635 Training Data Set Obtaining Method, Wireless Transmission Method, and Communications Device Non-Final OA VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
18369716 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING METHOD, PREDICTION METHOD THEREFOR, APPARATUS, DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
17790574 POLICY LEARNING METHOD, POLICY LEARNING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18186715 MULTIVARIATE TIME-SERIES SEGMENTATION USING SPARSE GRAPH RECOVERY ALGORITHMS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18177547 UNIVERSAL ADAPTER FOR LOW-OVERHEAD INTEGRATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH A WEB-BASED SERVICE PLATFORM Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18023342 METHOD FOR A STATE ENGINEERING FOR A REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SYSTEM Non-Final OA SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
18963388 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TIME-CORRELATED DATA OUTPUTS Non-Final OA Signet Health Corporation
18254474 FEDERATED LEARNING PARTICIPANT SELECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION
17099634 MULTI OBJECT TRACKING USING MEMORY ATTENTION Final Rejection Waymo LLC
18470281 ARTIFICIAL NEURON NETWORK HAVING AT LEAST ONE UNIT CELL QUANTIFIED IN BINARY Non-Final OA STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
17961277 GENERATING IN-DISTRIBUTION SAMPLES OF TIME-SERIES OR IMAGE DATA FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRIBUTION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17112431 ANNOTATION DATA COLLECTION TO REDUCE MACHINE MODEL UNCERTAINTY Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18623952 GENERATING DISCRETE LATENT REPRESENTATIONS OF INPUT DATA ITEMS Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
18167381 HIGH DIMENSIONAL SURROGATE MODELING FOR LEARNING UNCERTAINTY Final Rejection Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd.

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