Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: AGAHI, DARIOUSH

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2656 2658

This examiner grants 84% of resolved cases

Analysis

Darioush Agahi examines applications in Art Unit 2656 within Tech Center 2600. He has 184 resolved cases with an allowance rate of 83.7%. The median days to allowance for these cases is 952. This history of 184 cases provides a clear picture of prosecution outcomes.

The interview lift of 30.1% is a significant metric for this examiner. This lift indicates that an interview can notably increase the probability of an allowance compared to the 83.7% baseline rate. In Art Unit 2656, practitioners should use interviews to resolve rejections and navigate the 952-day median timeline.

With a 30.1% interview lift, direct communication is a highly effective tool for this examiner. The 83.7% allowance rate and 952-day median pendency are the core metrics for planning. These data points from 184 cases help practitioners develop a targeted approach in Tech Center 2600.

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

Performance Statistics

83.7%
Allow Rate
+21.7% vs TC avg
209
Total Applications
+30.1%
Interview Lift
952
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 184 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

23.7%
§101 Eligibility
10.7%
§102 Novelty
55.0%
§103 Obviousness
6.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19048010 ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SERVER, AND SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18503741 DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ENHANCING OUTPUT CONTENT THROUGH ITERATIVE GENERATION Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18962862 DIGITAL ASSISTANT INTERACTION IN A VIDEO COMMUNICATION SESSION ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18337620 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE BASED COMMAND RECOGNITION Final Rejection VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
19049425 Using Synthetic Data to Improve Word Error Rate of Differentially Private ASR Models Non-Final OA Google LLC
19025587 DETERMINING WHETHER TO AUTOMATICALLY RESUME FIRST AUTOMATED ASSISTANT SESSION UPON CESSATION OF INTERRUPTING SECOND SESSION Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18582064 STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING VOICE MESSAGE, CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18955380 SPEECH ANALYSIS DEVICES AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MIGRAINE ATTACKS Non-Final OA Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
18070830 WAKEWORD DETECTION USING A NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
19016140 Language Model Evaluation Using Key-Phrase Extraction And Text Summarization Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18892272 SPEECH DIALOG SYSTEM AND RECIPROCITY ENFORCED NEURAL RELATIVE TRANSFER FUNCTION ESTIMATOR Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18749305 ANSWER FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS APPLIED TO LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
18935495 OptiSenseGPT: Context-Aware Anomaly Detection with Natural Language Alerts and ActionableRecommendations for Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Applications Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
19025548 MULTI-DECODER SPEECH RECOGNITION MODELS WITH MULTI-FORMAT OUTPUTS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
19025600 CONTEXT PRUNING FOR RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION Non-Final OA Naver Corporation
18981176 MULTI-MODEL GESTURE TO AUDIO TRANSLATION Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
19015222 EVALUATING CONVERSATIONAL AGENT RESPONSE QUALITY USING QUERY SENTIMENT Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.

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