Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: COLUCCI, MICHAEL C

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2122 2626 2655 2656 2658

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.8%
Allow Rate
+13.8% vs TC avg
1,050
Total Applications
+15.2%
Interview Lift
1149
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1009 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.1%
§101 Eligibility
8.7%
§102 Novelty
61.2%
§103 Obviousness
4.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18965517 HUB DEVICE, MULTI-DEVICE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE HUB DEVICE AND PLURALITY OF DEVICES, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18924538 ADAPTIVE INTERFACE IN A VOICE-ACTIVATED NETWORK Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18914823 VEHICLE FUNCTION CONTROL WITH SENSOR BASED VALIDATION Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18889090 ISOLATING A DEVICE, FROM MULTIPLE DEVICES IN AN ENVIRONMENT, FOR BEING RESPONSIVE TO SPOKEN ASSISTANT INVOCATION(S) Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18815537 TWO-PASS END TO END SPEECH RECOGNITION Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18667260 VOICE OPERATION DEVICE THAT OPERATES OPERATED DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING VOICE OPERATION PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, AND VOICE OPERATING SYSTEM Final Rejection KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
17571425 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STREAMABLE MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
19051074 MEMORY-EFFICIENT DRAFT MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18808845 GLOBAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT Final Rejection Paypal, Inc.
18842652 OPTIMISED ENCODING AND DECODING OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING A NEURAL NETWORK-BASED AUTOENCODER Final Rejection Orange
18471876 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT SPEECH REPRESENTATION Non-Final OA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
18789219 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TOTAL DURATION-AWARE MODEL TO CONTROL THE TOTAL DURATION OF SPEECH UTTERANCES BY A TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS) COMPUTING SYTEM Final Rejection MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18842141 Speech Synthesizer and Method for Speech Synthesis Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18953737 METHOD FOR REDUCING SKIP RATES IN SPEECH DATA LABELING Non-Final OA VIETTEL GROUP
18957227 INTEREST-BASED CONVERSATIONAL RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Roku, Inc.
18483089 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING CAPTURED HUMAN REASONING Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18223624 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING REQUEST MESSAGE Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18979052 VOICE-BASED, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-DRIVEN FLOW ENGINE Non-Final OA Assured Insurance Technologies, Inc.
18784900 METHOD OF GENERATING TRAINING DATA, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18986673 ADAPTIVE VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
18763719 AUDIO ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN IMMERSIVE AUDIO EXPERIENCE Final Rejection SHURE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.

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