Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2658

This examiner grants 50% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

50.4%
Allow Rate
-11.6% vs TC avg
250
Total Applications
+37.3%
Interview Lift
1272
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 228 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

16.4%
§101 Eligibility
20.9%
§102 Novelty
53.1%
§103 Obviousness
5.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18562356 VOICE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
18383261 Voice Data Generation Method, Voice Data Generation Apparatus And Computer-Readable Recording Medium Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
18330446 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EVALUATING RESPONSES PROVIDED BY LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17541995 AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTING AUDIO DATA BASED ASSISTANT PROCESSING Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18059230 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING LABEL MODULAR PROMPTS Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
18181103 GENERALIZABLE INSTRUCTION FOLLOWING WITH PRE-TRAINED LANGUAGE AND GROUNDING MODELS Non-Final OA Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
18063023 Systems and Methods for Facilitating Semantic Search of Audio Content Final Rejection Spotify AB
18057016 MULTI-ROUND DIALOGUE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
17729238 LIVE SPEECH DETECTION Non-Final OA Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
17393434 EMOTIONALLY-AWARE CONVERSATIONAL RESPONSE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
18034207 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
17697667 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Final Rejection Smarsh, Inc.

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