Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: ZARKA, DAVID PETER

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2449 2472 2618 2624 2669

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

82.4%
Allow Rate
+20.4% vs TC avg
600
Total Applications
+12.9%
Interview Lift
1140
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 575 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.8%
§101 Eligibility
6.6%
§102 Novelty
65.6%
§103 Obviousness
15.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18269794 IMAGE TARGET AUTHENTICATION BASED ON CONTINUOUS FEATURE QUANTITY Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18790423 OPTIMIZING NETWORK BANDWIDTH BY ENCODING SAME DATA VALUES IN CLUSTER NETWORKS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18218289 COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT HASH COMPUTATION Final Rejection Block, Inc.
18862612 MANAGING MULTI-USER SESSIONS IN EDGE DATA NETWORKS Non-Final OA InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
18541382 ENABLING DIFFERENTIATED MULTI-SEGMENT CLOUD SECURITY FOR TENANTS ON A MULTI-TENANT EDGE DEVICE Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18380594 NETWORK CONTROLLER, FAILURE INJECTION COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL, AND FAILURE INJECTION MODULE FOR PRODUCTION NETWORK ENVIRONMENT Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18593809 FACE IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIMODAL IMAGING DATA Non-Final OA Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
18756234 Machine Learning-Based Multitenant Server Application Dependency Mapping System Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
18506605 Distributed Control System for Industrial Processes, A Method Therein, Computer Program and Computer Program Product Non-Final OA ABB Schweiz AG
18852409 NETWORK INITIATED PRIMARY AUTHENTICATION Non-Final OA Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Limited
18462559 MINING PROCESS INCENTIVES USING PAST BLOCKS Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18702240 WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING FOR AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Arqit Limited
18734438 SECURE ADDRESS DISCOVERY FOR SYMMETRIC NAT FUNCTIONALITY Final Rejection Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
18950511 Action Recommendations for Operational Issues Non-Final OA PagerDuty, Inc.
18923873 APPARATUSES AND METHODS TO FACILITATE NOTIFICATIONS IN RELATION TO DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES Non-Final OA AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
18617706 Web Page Password Capture and Evaluation Final Rejection SAILPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
18354752 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION VIA A DEVICE Final Rejection PLUME DESIGN, INC.
18678702 DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM Non-Final OA NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
18809507 BLOCKCHAIN BASED ACCESS TO DEVICES ON A NETWORK WITH LOCAL TOKEN ACQUISITION Non-Final OA Fortix Inc.
18617377 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TRANSPARENT ACTION BASED REWARDS VIA DECENTRALIZED COMPUTING NETWORK TRIGGERS Non-Final OA Talentpair, Inc.

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