USPTO Art Unit 2168 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2168
Group: 2160
Tech Center: 2100
Total Cases: 9,493
Last Active: December 2024

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18985065Fast�and�Energy-Efficient�K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Search Accelerator for Large-Scale Point CloudDecember 2024March 2025Allow300NoNo
18976960SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow410NoNo
18976654SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow410NoNo
18976766SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow410NoNo
18977112SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow510NoNo
18961285Method and computer program product for detecting and preventing successful attacks at endpoints in a Validation Architecture systemNovember 2024March 2025Allow410NoNo
18961186MATRIX USER INTERFACE FOR LLM-POWERED DATA ANALYSIS AND GENERATIONNovember 2024June 2025Allow610YesNo
18957779METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A PROJECTION STRUCTURE USING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACENovember 2024January 2025Allow200NoNo
18860966DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A HIGHLY-SCALABLE, EFFICIENT COMPOSITE RECORD INDEXOctober 2024February 2025Allow400YesNo
18926514Indexing Constituent DataOctober 2024July 2025Allow800NoNo
18918887Real-Time Micro-Profile Generation Using a Dynamic Tree StructureOctober 2024June 2025Allow800NoNo
18903946METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REGULATORY EXPLORATION PRESERVING BANDWIDTH AND IMPROVING COMPUTING PERFORMANCEOctober 2024March 2025Allow510YesNo
18851784METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REFERENCING DATASeptember 2024May 2025Allow810YesNo
18829155RESOLVING UNKNOWN DATA NODES DURING GRANULAR QUERY PROCESSING VIA A PLANAR DATA MODELSeptember 2024March 2025Allow610YesNo
18808240SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGAugust 2024February 2025Allow610NoNo
18835540SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CONVERSIONAugust 2024February 2025Allow600NoNo
18780602COMPUTER SYSTEM AND SERVICE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT METHODJuly 2024June 2025Allow1110YesNo
18773570QUERYING ACROSS DIFFERENT LOG DATA SOURCE TYPESJuly 2024February 2025Allow720YesNo
18772671SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATION TO MODIFY DEFICIENT CONTENT ITEMJuly 2024June 2025Allow1100NoNo
18762858IDENTIFYING KEYWORDS FOR INDEXING CONTENT AND SEARCHING BACKUPSJuly 2024March 2025Allow800NoNo
18761483INTELLIGENTLY EXPANDING SEARCH RESULTS AHEAD-OF-TIMEJuly 2024February 2025Allow800YesNo
18137899METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING WORKFLOWS FOR AUTHORING DATA DOCUMENTSJuly 2024January 2025Abandon2110NoNo
18762096METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING LABELS OF UNLABELLED COLUMN DATAJuly 2024April 2025Allow900NoNo
18748595RETRIEVING DATA IDENTIFIERS FROM QUEUE FOR SEARCH OF EXTERNAL DATA SYSTEMJune 2024June 2025Allow1100YesNo
18748693ENSURING DATA CONSISTENCY ACROSS MULTIPLE MONITORING SERVICESJune 2024March 2025Allow900NoNo
18735097CLUSTERING BASED ENTITY MATCHING USING MULTIPLE QUEUESJune 2024June 2025Allow1300YesNo
18668959SYSTEMS FOR DATABASE SEARCHING AND DATABASE SCHEMAS MANAGEMENT AND METHODS OF USE THEREOFMay 2024March 2025Allow1010NoNo
18656148Systems And Methods For Content Sharing Using Template-Driven WorkflowsMay 2024March 2025Allow1010NoNo
18655472FILTERED SEARCH METHODMay 2024April 2025Allow1110YesNo
18651274SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPH-BASED DYNAMIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND SYNTHESISApril 2024February 2025Allow1000NoNo
18650489Ensuring the Resiliency of Redundancy Data in a Cloud-Based Storage SystemApril 2024April 2025Allow1110YesNo
18647590ETL-Less Zero-Redundancy System and Method for Reporting OLTP DataApril 2024March 2025Allow1010NoNo
18647351Analyzing Data SpecificationsApril 2024February 2025Allow900NoNo
18643029WARM START FILE COMPRESSION USING SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTApril 2024June 2025Allow1310YesNo
18643404SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR CONTENT SELECTIONApril 2024April 2025Allow1210NoNo
18638498RECONSTRUCTING BROWSER INTERACTION FROM SESSION DATA HAVING INCOMPLETE TRACKING DATAApril 2024June 2025Allow1410NoNo
18633242INCREMENTAL BLOCK VOLUME RESTORE FOR OPTIMIZED BACKUP EXPORTApril 2024April 2025Allow1210YesNo
18631790METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DELETION OF INFORMATION BASED ON TIME SYNCHRONIZATION AND TRUSTED COUNTINGApril 2024June 2025Allow1510NoNo
18631541VECTOR EMBEDDING COMPRESSIONApril 2024October 2024Allow700NoNo
18626904DATABASE SYSTEM UTILIZING PROBABILISTIC INDEXINGApril 2024June 2025Allow1410NoNo
18614380Fetching Query Results Through Cloud Object StoresMarch 2024April 2025Allow1310YesNo
18614571EXTENSIBLE ATTRIBUTES FOR DATA WAREHOUSESMarch 2024June 2025Allow1510YesNo
18612703SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING NODES OF A ROBOTIC SYSTEMMarch 2024March 2025Allow1100NoNo
18606442CONSTANT TIME DATA STRUCTURE FOR SINGLE AND DISTRIBUTED NETWORKSMarch 2024December 2024Allow910NoNo
18605550SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POPULATING A STRUCTURED DATABASE BASED ON AN IMAGE REPRESENTATION OF A DATA TABLEMarch 2024May 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18602759COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS CONFIGURED FOR GENERATING SEARCH QUERIES FOR A SEARCH ENGINE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOFMarch 2024November 2024Allow800NoNo
18601480INDEX DATA STRUCTURES AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACEMarch 2024March 2025Allow1210YesNo
18601970Automatically separating claim into elements/limitations and automatically finding art for each element/limitationMarch 2024April 2025Abandon1310NoNo
18600429APPARTUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING A DATA STRUCTURE FOR OPERATIONAL INEFFICIENCYMarch 2024February 2025Allow1130YesNo
18600121Systems and methods for identifying a design template matching a search queryMarch 2024January 2025Allow1000YesNo
18599670METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING ENTITY RELATIONSHIP GRAPH, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2024March 2025Allow1200YesNo
18599664FRAMEWORK FOR MIGRATING APPLICATIONS TO CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTMarch 2024January 2025Allow1110NoNo
18598727DYNAMIC INDEXING IN KEY-VALUE STORESMarch 2024December 2024Allow900NoNo
18597046Query Alerts Generation for Virtual WarehouseMarch 2024April 2025Allow1320YesNo
18596720APPLYING PREDICTIVE MODELS TO DATA REPRESENTING A HISTORY OF EVENTSMarch 2024January 2025Allow1110YesNo
18593057SEMANTIC MATCHING MODEL FOR DATA DE-DUPLICATION OR MASTER DATA MANAGEMENTMarch 2024February 2025Allow1200NoNo
18591568MULTI-FRAGMENT INDEX SCANFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1410NoNo
18591078FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND WORK SUPPORT SYSTEMFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1310NoNo
18590334METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRUNING BLOCKS FROM A BLOCKCHAINFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1510NoNo
18585535Document Creation with Guided Generative Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 2024November 2024Allow900NoNo
18581656TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING UNDECLARED COMPOSITE KEY RELATIONSHIPS IN A DATABASE SCHEMAFebruary 2024December 2024Allow1000NoNo
18582232CONVERSION PATH PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND REPORTSFebruary 2024September 2024Allow700NoNo
18444314HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED TOPIC MANAGER THAT ORGANIZES DIALOGS WITH AN AI SYSTEMFebruary 2024July 2024Allow510NoNo
18441797Text classification command line interface tool and related methodFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310YesNo
18441389RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1510NoNo
18441592SYNCHRONIZATION OF GRAPHICAL DATAFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310YesNo
18440613PERFORMANT PROXIMITY MATCHING BETWEEN SETS OF UNSTRUCTURED RECORDSFebruary 2024April 2024Allow200YesNo
18440233Systems and Methods for Correlating Experimental Biological DatasetsFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18438101METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODIFYING A SEARCH RESULTFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18432962OBJECT DATA STORED OUT OF LINE VECTOR ENGINEFebruary 2024September 2024Allow700YesNo
18432917SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING DATA LINEAGE AND RECORD LIFECYCLE USING DISTRIBUTED LEDGERSFebruary 2024December 2024Allow1010NoNo
18430223HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING AND DEPLOYMENT TO MOBILE EDGE DEVICESFebruary 2024January 2025Allow1210NoNo
18428156SYSTEM FOR MULTI-TAGGING IMAGESJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1520YesNo
18429286MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTS AND FUNCTIONS IN A DATABASE SYSTEMJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1410YesNo
18426252METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STATEFUL WORKFLOW EXECUTIONJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1300NoNo
18426272SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXECUTING QUERIES ON TENSOR DATASETSJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210YesNo
18419165FETCHING QUERY RESULT DATA USING RESULT BATCHESJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210NoNo
18418448SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING DOCUMENTSJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1300YesNo
18419118SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CYBERTHREATS FROM UNSTRUCTURED SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENTJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210NoNo
18418257DISTRIBUTED DATABASE CONFIGURATIONJanuary 2024June 2025Allow1720NoNo
18413002DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICEJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1610NoNo
18410445EVENT-DRIVEN COMPUTER MODELING SYSTEM FOR TIME SERIES DATAJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1310NoNo
18409278METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CLASSIFICATION AND TAGGING OF TEXTUAL DATAJanuary 2024August 2024Allow700NoNo
18409472SHARED HIERARCHICAL DATA DESIGN MODEL FOR TRANSFERRING DATA WITHIN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1310NoNo
18409054ENUMERATION OF ROOTED PARTIAL SUBTREESJanuary 2024March 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18408374SERVICING DATABASE REQUESTS USING DERIVATIONS OF CANONICALIZED TABLESJanuary 2024November 2024Allow1110YesNo
18407512SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SECURE DATA RECORDS IN A WEB BROWSING SESSIONJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1520YesNo
18406325Smart Interactions for a Digital DuplicateJanuary 2024March 2025Allow1410YesNo
18404734TRACE EVENTS IN A DATABASE SYSTEMJanuary 2024November 2024Allow1010NoNo
18402291ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED AUTOMATED PARSER CREATIONJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1710YesNo
18402296Schema Tool for Non-Relational DatabasesJanuary 2024November 2024Allow1010YesNo
18400573SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CROSS-MICROSERVICE QUERY OPTIMIZATIONDecember 2023January 2025Allow1310NoNo
18575162DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2023March 2025Allow1400YesNo
18397987DATA LINEAGE BASED MULTI-DATA STORE RECOVERYDecember 2023October 2024Allow1010NoNo
18396848CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - MIGRATIONDecember 2023March 2025Allow1510YesNo
18396455BATCHING WAVEFORM DATADecember 2023May 2025Allow1610YesNo
18395860INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODDecember 2023January 2025Allow1310YesNo
18394103MULTIPLE QUERY PROJECTIONS FOR DEEP MACHINE LEARNINGDecember 2023February 2025Allow1410YesNo
18394026METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTSDecember 2023April 2025Allow1610NoNo
18395449AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF DATABASESDecember 2023June 2025Allow1720NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2168.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
374
Examiner Affirmed
261
(69.8%)
Examiner Reversed
113
(30.2%)
Reversal Percentile
39.8%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 30.2% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
1016
Allowed After Appeal Filing
304
(29.9%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
712
(70.1%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
33.5%
Lower than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.

In this dataset, 29.9% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.

Strategic Recommendations

⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Art Unit 2168 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2168 is part of Group 2160 in Technology Center 2100. This art unit has examined 9,493 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 75.6%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 35 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2168's allowance rate of 75.6% places it in the 42% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has a below-average allowance rate compared to other art units.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Art Unit 2168 receive an average of 2.42 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 89% percentile). The median prosecution time is 35 months (in the 21% percentile).

Strategic Considerations

When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:

  • The art unit's allowance rate suggests a more challenging examination environment compared to the USPTO average.
  • With more office actions than average, plan for multiple rounds of prosecution.
  • The median prosecution time is longer than average and should be factored into your continuation and client communication strategies.
  • Review individual examiner statistics within this art unit to identify examiners with particularly favorable or challenging prosecution patterns.

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

No Guarantees: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the statistics presented above. Patent prosecution statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data and are subject to data quality limitations, processing errors, and changes in USPTO practices over time.

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