Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: BARNES JR, CARL E

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2177 2178 2646

This examiner grants 32% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

32.2%
Allow Rate
-29.8% vs TC avg
242
Total Applications
+25.4%
Interview Lift
1428
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 211 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.3%
§101 Eligibility
8.1%
§102 Novelty
66.6%
§103 Obviousness
9.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18656538 Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Activating, Configuring, and Interacting with Different Operational Modes Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17686677 Semantic SLAM Framework for Improved Object Pose Estimation Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18501982 ZERO-SHOT FORM ENTITY QUERY FRAMEWORK Final Rejection Google LLC
18820639 DYNAMIC SPLITTING AND MERGING OF AGENTS IN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Non-Final OA DocuSign, Inc.
18057437 MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A MEDICAL TREATMENT DEVICE IN X-RAY IMAGES Non-Final OA Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
18213978 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18530984 RESTORATIVE DECISION SUPPORT FOR DENTAL TREATMENT Final Rejection Align Technology, Inc.
19212928 DESCRIPTIVE INSIGHT GENERATION AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18383799 MULTI-MODAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR DIGITAL DOCUMENT PROCESSING Non-Final OA Intuit Inc.
18725598 TEXT ERROR CORRECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM Non-Final OA Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
18852793 Method and Apparatus for Generating Operation Interface, and Method and Apparatus for Controlling Operation Interface Non-Final OA ZTE Corporation
18815061 CONTENT-ADAPTIVE TUTORIALS FOR GRAPHICS EDITING TOOLS IN A GRAPHICS EDITING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
16255620 ADVERSARIAL TREATMENT TO MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ADVERSARY Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation

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