Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: DICKERSON, CHAD S

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2625 2672 2681 2682 2683

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.7%
Allow Rate
+0.7% vs TC avg
635
Total Applications
+23.0%
Interview Lift
1025
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 600 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

8.8%
§101 Eligibility
14.9%
§102 Novelty
55.5%
§103 Obviousness
18.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18532296 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE PROBING OF PIECEWISE CONTINUOUS SURFACES Non-Final OA FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
18423284 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AVPS MARKER Non-Final OA HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
18275144 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17954145 CELL CULTURE EVALUATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR OPERATING CELL CULTURE EVALUATION DEVICE TO OUTPUT EXPRESSION LEVELS OF A PLURALITY OF TYPES OF RIBONUCLEIC ACIDS OF A CELL Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18628019 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18039770 PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Final Rejection HOYA CORPORATION
17540200 DISPLAY CONTROL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT APPLICABLE TO PERFORMING REAL-TIME VIDEO CONTENT TEXT DETECTION AND SPEECH AUTOMATIC GENERATION IN DISPLAY DEVICE Non-Final OA Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
18011888 Determining Chest Conditions from Radiograph Data via Machine Learning Final Rejection Google LLC
18012187 Self-Supervised Machine Learning for Medical Image Analysis Final Rejection Google LLC
18038998 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A DEPTH MAP COMPRISING DETERMINING AN UPDATED DEPTH VALUE FOR A PIXEL BASED ON A COST FUNCTION OF DEPTH VALUES IN A DIRECTION FROM THE PIXEL Final Rejection KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
17788348 METHOD OF PROCESSING COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) DATA FOR FILTER BACK PROJECTION (FBP) TO SUPPRESS IMAGE CONE BEAM ARTIFACTS (CBA) FOR RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18337827 HYBRID MB/ML TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED PCB DEFECT DETECTION Final Rejection BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
18115892 Image Reconstruction from Magnetic Resonance Measurement Data with a Trained Function Applied to Processed Magnetic Resonance Data in a Dedicated Form Final Rejection Siemens Healthineers AG
17769288 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NIKON CORPORATION
18312354 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TECHNIQUE TO IMAGING TISSUE HETEROGENEITY Non-Final OA The General Hospital Corporation
17991618 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPECIMEN INTERPRETATION USING ONE OR MORE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS AND CELL-LEVEL FEATURES OF INDIVIDUAL CELLS Final Rejection UPMC
18405750 IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION METHOD BASED ON KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION COMPRESSION MODEL AND DEVICE THEREOF Non-Final OA Zhejiang University
18306177 COMPRESSION OF LIDAR POINTCLOUD DATA ACQUIRED FROM A LIDAR SENSOR COUPLED TO AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICE USING A LOSSLESS COMPRESSION ALGORITHM Final Rejection GM Cruise Holdings LLC
18260459 QUANTIFICATION OF CONDITIONS ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGES ACROSS STAINING MODALITIES USING A MULTI-TASK DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK Non-Final OA Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases
18379834 METHOD OF EXTRACTING GENE CANDIDATE, METHOD OF UTILIZING GENE CANDIDATE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

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