Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: COLUCCI, MICHAEL C

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

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.7%
Allow Rate
+13.7% vs TC avg
1031
Total Applications
+15.3%
Interview Lift
1140
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 990 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.2%
§101 Eligibility
8.5%
§102 Novelty
59.2%
§103 Obviousness
6.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18428821 METHOD OF DETERMINING FALSE REJECTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18416589 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF LOW LATENCY SPEECH ENHANCEMENT USING AUTOREGRESSIVE CONDITIONING-BASED NEURAL NETWORK MODEL Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18718154 EXTRACTION DEVICE Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18790904 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VOICE RECOGNITION SERVICE Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
17571425 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STREAMABLE MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
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 Non-Final OA MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18815537 TWO-PASS END TO END SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18766909 Device Leadership Negotiation Among Voice Interface Devices Non-Final OA Google LLC
18598523 CONNECTING DIFFERENT ASR APPLICATION DOMAINS WITH SPEAKER-TAGS Final Rejection Google LLC
18842141 Speech Synthesizer and Method for Speech Synthesis Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18808845 GLOBAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Paypal, Inc.
18784900 METHOD OF GENERATING TRAINING DATA, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18718717 SAMPLE GENERATION BASED ON JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18483089 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING CAPTURED HUMAN REASONING Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18667504 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MODEL GENERATION RESULT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18423490 AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM CONTEXTUALLY BIASED FOR MEDICAL SPEECH Final Rejection Verily Life Sciences LLC
18834798 ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION METHOD, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA University of Tsukuba
18697907 METHOD FOR ANALYSING A NOISY SOUND SIGNAL FOR THE RECOGNITION OF CONTROL KEYWORDS AND OF A SPEAKER OF THE ANALYSED NOISY SOUND SIGNAL Non-Final OA UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER
18667835 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING VIA INTEGRATION OF CASE-SPECIFIC AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Non-Final OA Epiq eDiscovery Solutions, Inc.
18194982 APPLYING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) TECHNIQUES TO TIME SERIES DATA TO DERIVE ATTRIBUTES FOR USE WITH A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA EQUIFAX INC.

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