Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: COLEMAN, STEPHEN P

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2622 2661 2662 2665 2671 2675 2878 3795

This examiner grants 84% of resolved cases

Analysis

Stephen P Coleman is an examiner in Tech Center 3700 and Art Unit 2622. He has 917 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 84.0 percent. This rate suggests the environment for applicants. The median days to allowance is 836, indicating the prosecution process timeline.

The interview lift is 11.3 percent. This lift shows that interviews are an effective way to further increase the 84.0 percent allowance rate. In Tech Center 3700, the 836 days median to allowance reflects the timeline for reaching a resolution.

With 917 resolved cases, the examiner's statistics are reliable. The 84.0 percent allowance rate and the 836 days median to allowance are indicators for applicants in Art Unit 2622. The 11.3 percent interview lift remains an option for resolving outstanding issues. The combination of these metrics defines the current prosecution landscape for this examiner.

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

Performance Statistics

84.0%
Allow Rate
+14.0% vs TC avg
948
Total Applications
+11.3%
Interview Lift
836
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 917 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.2%
§101 Eligibility
27.3%
§102 Novelty
48.9%
§103 Obviousness
7.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18825524 IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
18742108 DEVICE AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18394001 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT PROCESSES 3D INFORMATION, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18895161 DOMAIN-AGNOSTIC ANNOTATION FRAMEWORK Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18572510 SAMPLE-ADAPTIVE CROSS-LAYER NORM CALIBRATION AND RELAY NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18613668 MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM Final Rejection KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
18847266 MARKER APPARATUS, COMPUTER SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18671735 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WATERMARK EMBEDDING AND EXTRACTION Non-Final OA Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
18777274 LEARNED FEATURE MOTION DETECTION Final Rejection Imagination Technologies Limited
18865926 SINGLE VIEWPOINT TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM USING POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS OF TILTED PSEUDO-NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS Non-Final OA B.G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY
18942867 Method of Using a Coordinate Measuring Machine to Measure a Workpiece Non-Final OA Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH

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