Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2626 2659

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

74.6%
Allow Rate
+12.6% vs TC avg
666
Total Applications
+9.5%
Interview Lift
1433
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 641 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.9%
§101 Eligibility
14.8%
§102 Novelty
43.7%
§103 Obviousness
7.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18134878 METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO VOICE INPUT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17750787 NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS OF USER SENTIMENT BASED ON DATA OBTAINED DURING USER WORKFLOW Non-Final OA Airbnb, Inc.
18516150 AUTOMATED USER INTERFACE TRANSLATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17816941 SYNCHRONIZING TRANSLATION WITH SOURCE MULTIMEDIA Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18037546 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING VOICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18511369 ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TEXT TO SPEECH MODEL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME Non-Final OA Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
18314766 REAL-TIME AI SCREENING AND AUTO-MODERATION OF AUDIO COMMENTS IN A LIVESTREAM Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
17738011 INFORMATION PROCESSING COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
17837684 VOICE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A SPEAKER AND A RECIPIENT OVER A COMMUNICATION NETWORK Final Rejection Elektrobit Automotive GmbH
18146662 SPEECH INSTRUCTION CONTROL METHOD IN VEHICLE CABIN AND RELATED DEVICE Non-Final OA Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.
18292568 DISCUSSION EVALUATION APPARATUS, DISCUSSION EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17966771 REPRODUCTION CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection Yamaha Corporation
17580289 Text-to-Speech Adapted by Machine Learning Non-Final OA SoundHound AI IP, LLC
18767896 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH PROCESSING USING A DENSELY CONNECTED HYBRID NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Reflex Technologies, Inc.

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