Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2658

This examiner grants 51% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

51.1%
Allow Rate
-10.9% vs TC avg
252
Total Applications
+38.6%
Interview Lift
1203
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 233 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.8%
§101 Eligibility
9.6%
§102 Novelty
84.7%
§103 Obviousness
0.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18708348 METHOD FOR PROVIDING VOICE SYNTHESIS SERVICE AND SYSTEM THEREFOR Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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
18383261 Voice Data Generation Method, Voice Data Generation Apparatus And Computer-Readable Recording Medium Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
18181103 GENERALIZABLE INSTRUCTION FOLLOWING WITH PRE-TRAINED LANGUAGE AND GROUNDING MODELS Non-Final OA Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
18059230 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING LABEL MODULAR PROMPTS Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
18063023 Systems and Methods for Facilitating Semantic Search of Audio Content Final Rejection Spotify AB
17584512 SERVER-BASED FALSE WAKE WORD DETECTION Non-Final OA 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.
17923620 INCREMENTAL POST-EDITING AND LEARNING IN SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION SERVICES Final Rejection ZOOM VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
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.
18522320 METHOD OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT USING VOICE DATA AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD Non-Final OA WELT CORP., LTD
18034207 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

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