Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: COLUCCI, MICHAEL C

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

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Analysis

Michael C. Colucci is a patent examiner in Art Unit 2122 of Tech Center 2600. He has 1012 resolved cases in his record. The data shows an allowance rate of 75.8% for these applications. This percentage represents the frequency of grants among the 1012 resolved cases. Practitioners should note this 75.8% rate when developing a strategy for prosecution with this examiner.

The median days to allowance is 1148. This figure provides the timeline for applications that reach a grant. The interview lift is 15.3%. This positive lift indicates that cases with an interview have a higher allowance rate than those without an interview. The 15.3% lift suggests that direct communication correlates with an increased probability of success. The 1148 median days to allowance and the 2122 Art Unit designation are key data points for applications in Tech Center 2600.

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

Performance Statistics

75.8%
Allow Rate
+13.8% vs TC avg
1,053
Total Applications
+15.3%
Interview Lift
1148
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1012 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.0%
§101 Eligibility
8.9%
§102 Novelty
61.2%
§103 Obviousness
4.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18708173 AR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AR DEVICE Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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.
18428821 METHOD OF DETERMINING FALSE REJECTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18979052 VOICE-BASED, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-DRIVEN FLOW ENGINE Non-Final OA Assured Insurance Technologies, Inc.
19036431 PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17571425 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STREAMABLE MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
19050807 UPDATING TRAINED VOICE BOT(S) UTILIZING EXAMPLE-BASED VOICE BOT DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18815537 TWO-PASS END TO END SPEECH RECOGNITION Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
19028721 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE WITH CUSTOMERS Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
19051074 MEMORY-EFFICIENT DRAFT MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
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.
18808845 GLOBAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT Final Rejection Paypal, Inc.
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
18375832 Long Running Language Model Thread Truncation Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
19031170 Systems and Methods of Multiple Voice Services Non-Final OA Sonos, Inc.
18828812 SMART VEHICLE ASSISTANT Final Rejection State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
18987693 METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18942726 SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION UNDERSTANDING USING MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18483089 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING CAPTURED HUMAN REASONING Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18194982 APPLYING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) TECHNIQUES TO TIME SERIES DATA TO DERIVE ATTRIBUTES FOR USE WITH A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection EQUIFAX INC.
18800222 EMBEDDED NEURAL CODEC FOR LOW LATENCY SPEECH ENHANCEMENT AND AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION IN HEARABLES Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18223624 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING REQUEST MESSAGE Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18763719 AUDIO ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN IMMERSIVE AUDIO EXPERIENCE Final Rejection SHURE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.
18986673 ADAPTIVE VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
18953970 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPEECH GENERATION BY EMOTIONAL VOICE CONVERSION Non-Final OA Datum Point Labs Inc.
18695763 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT TECHNOCROSS CORPORATION

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