Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BARNES JR, CARL E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2177 2178

This examiner grants 32% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

32.2%
Allow Rate
-22.8% vs TC avg
234
Total Applications
+25.2%
Interview Lift
1583
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 202 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.3%
§101 Eligibility
9.0%
§102 Novelty
62.6%
§103 Obviousness
8.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18213978 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17507309 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ACCURATE AND RAPID EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF COVID-19 FROM CHEST X RAY Non-Final OA Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
17911290 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AUTOMATED OPERATION OF A DEVICE IN A SURGICAL SPACE Final Rejection Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
18693413 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
19212928 DESCRIPTIVE INSIGHT GENERATION AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18501982 ZERO-SHOT FORM ENTITY QUERY FRAMEWORK Non-Final OA Google LLC
16255620 ADVERSARIAL TREATMENT TO MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ADVERSARY Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
16039965 CONVERSATIONAL OPTIMIZATION OF COGNITIVE MODELS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18609323 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
17686677 Semantic SLAM Framework for Improved Object Pose Estimation Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18607036 MULTIMODAL SENSOR AGNOSTIC LOCALIZATION USING ONE OR MORE ADAPTIVE FEATURE GRAPHS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18210498 LAYOUT AWARE MULTI-MODAL NETWORKS FOR DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
18383799 MULTI-MODAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR DIGITAL DOCUMENT PROCESSING Non-Final OA Intuit Inc.
18328950 EFFICIENT AUGMENTATION FOR MULTIMODAL MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
17586286 METHOD FOR DETECTING SERIAL SECTION OF MEDICAL IMAGE Non-Final OA VUNO Inc.
17406077 COMBINED INTRAORAL AND IMPRESSION SCANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD Non-Final OA MEDIT CORP.
15635793 INTERLOCK CHAIN VISUALIZATION Final Rejection FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
17955486 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING TOOL WIDTH DATA TO ESTIMATE MEASUREMENTS IN A SURGICAL SITE Final Rejection Asensus Surgical US, Inc.
18585805 MULTI-MODAL MULTI-VIEW CLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAMS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM Non-Final OA UNION HOSPITAL TONGJI MEDICAL COLLEGE HUST
17798921 DETECTION OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN HUMAN BRAINS FROM IMAGES Non-Final OA Imperial College Innovations Limited
18122467 SYNCHRONIZING FILTER METADATA WITH A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION Non-Final OA ClearPlay, Inc.
17919203 VERIFICATION OF SEGMENTATION OF LUMINESCENCE IMAGES LIMITED TO ANALYSIS REGIONS THEREOF Final Rejection SurgVision GmbH

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