Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: DHOOGE, DEVIN J

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2669 2677

This examiner grants 71% of resolved cases

Analysis

Examiner Devin J. Dhooge works in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2669. The examiner has 93 resolved cases with an allowance rate of 71.0 percent. The median days to allowance for these cases is 1159. This data provides a picture of the examiner's typical prosecution timelines and success rates.

The interview lift for this examiner is 32.5 percent. This lift suggests that interviews are a productive tool, as they correlate with a higher likelihood of allowance than the 71.0 percent baseline. Practitioners should consider the 32.5 percent lift as a reason to engage the examiner directly during the prosecution of an application.

With 93 resolved cases, the examiner's statistics are well-defined. The 71.0 percent allowance rate indicates a favorable environment for applicants. The 1159 median days to allowance provides an expectation for the duration of the process, while the 32.5 percent interview lift offers a strategy for potentially improving the outcome in Art Unit 2669.

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

Performance Statistics

71.3%
Allow Rate
+9.3% vs TC avg
130
Total Applications
+31.7%
Interview Lift
1159
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 94 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

8.4%
§101 Eligibility
16.1%
§102 Novelty
71.5%
§103 Obviousness
4.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18350818 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-SOURCE MEDICAL IMAGING RECONSTRUCTION Final Rejection Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
18020860 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17802685 CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
19059210 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
18760028 TRAINING APPARATUS, TRAINING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18929474 MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA MOLECULAR SUBTYPE CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA Genentech, Inc.
18881081 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY BREATHING AMPLITUDES FOR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
18800591 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POST-PROCESSING RADIOGRAPHS Non-Final OA Siemens Healthineers AG
18122651 ONLINE TRAINING-BASED ENCODER TUNING WITH MULTI MODEL SELECTION IN NEURAL IMAGE COMPRESSION Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18717706 CHROMA FORMAT ADAPTATION Final Rejection InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
18097013 Fast Point Cloud Registration for Bootstrapping Localization in a Map Non-Final OA FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
18898711 LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
17382007 AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES OF WIDE AREA CIRCUMFERENTIAL ABLATION POINTS Non-Final OA Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
18398777 METHOD OF OPERATING DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING STYLE-BASED SKETCH AND METHOD OF TRAINING NEURAL NETWORK THEREFOR Final Rejection Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
18907049 NOISE REDUCTION PROCESSING METHOD AND NOISE REDUCTION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA SHIMADZU CORPORATION
18774088 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION ALGORITHM USING UNBIASED CONIC ESTIMATOR CONSIDERING DISTORTION Final Rejection SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
18192390 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, MODEL GENERATING METHOD, AND TRAINING DATA GENERATING METHOD Non-Final OA TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18259639 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection OMRON Corporation
18268953 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC DEFECT IMAGES FOR WAFER INSPECTION Non-Final OA ASML Netherlands B.V.
18232107 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FEATURE DATA Final Rejection HERE Global B.V.
18603002 DEEP LEARNING MODEL DIAGNOSTICS TOOLS USING STACKED IMAGES Non-Final OA KLA Corporation
18368151 NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING METHOD Final Rejection INFINITESIMA LIMITED

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