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Last updated: October 27, 2026

Penny Louise Caudle, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as CAUDLE, PENNY LOUISE

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2657

This examiner grants 71% of resolved cases

Analysis

CAUDLE, PENNY LOUISE is assigned to tech center 2600 and art unit 2657. The record includes 86 resolved cases, a 70.9% allowance rate, and a 1058-day median to allowance. The 13.1% interview lift indicates a positive association between interviews and allowance outcomes, though the recorded case volume is limited.

The principal companies are NVIDIA Corporation, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., and Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. The leading firms are Bayramoglu Law Offices LLC, Brion Raffoul, and Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC. Practitioners can use the profile as a preliminary guide while giving greater weight to application-specific technology and prior-art considerations.

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

Performance Statistics

70.9%
Allow Rate
+8.9% vs TC avg
104
Total Applications
+13.1%
Interview Lift
1058
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 86 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.0%
§101 Eligibility
16.0%
§102 Novelty
44.6%
§103 Obviousness
17.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18793735 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO TRANSFORM AN AUDIO STREAM Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18040142 HYBRID TEXT TO SPEECH Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18855475 HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION USING NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM Non-Final OA Dolby International AB
18431211 NEURAL NETWORKS TO GENERATE SPEECH Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18337984 TEXT NORMALIZATION AND INVERSE TEXT NORMALIZATION FOR MULTI-LINGUAL LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18960064 DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF PERFORMANCE ISSUES DURING ONLINE MEETINGS Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18644168 Data Center Documentation Management Operation Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Penny Louise Caudle's allowance rate?

70.9% of resolved applications examined by Penny Louise Caudle were allowed (86 resolved cases), compared with 63.6% across Art Unit 2657 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Penny Louise Caudle?

This examiner's interview lift is +13.1 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Penny Louise Caudle take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Penny Louise Caudle took 1,058 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Penny Louise Caudle work in?

Penny Louise Caudle examines applications in Art Unit 2657 in Tech Center 2600 (Communications).

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