Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2677

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.5%
Allow Rate
-0.5% vs TC avg
47
Total Applications
+30.0%
Interview Lift
1050
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 13 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.9%
§101 Eligibility
1.0%
§102 Novelty
95.2%
§103 Obviousness
1.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18550753 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18177733 IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, LEARNING PROGRAM, SIMILAR IMAGE SEARCH DEVICE, SIMILAR IMAGE SEARCH METHOD, AND SIMILAR IMAGE SEARCH PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18698757 Neural Network Image Enhancement Non-Final OA Purdue Research Foundation
18294057 IMAGE PROCESSING MODULE Final Rejection LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
17949517 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF GENERATING IMAGES UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING AND EXISTING IMAGES WITH DISENTANGLED CONTENT AND STYLE ENCODING Final Rejection CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
18443808 BUILDING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS USING MASKED DISTILLATION FROM FOUNDATION MODELS Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18065726 Depth-Based 3D Human Pose Detection and Tracking Non-Final OA GDM Holding LLC
18495145 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING DISTANCE PREDICTIONS Non-Final OA Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
18245274 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF A CAMERA PARAMETER Final Rejection Eppendorf SE
18198538 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE EVALUATION AND CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA OneProjects Design and Innovation Ltd.
18286428 DRONE DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON INFRARED POLARIZATION Final Rejection Hefei Polytechnic University
18058536 GENERATING AN ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS PREDICTION MODEL Non-Final OA VENTUREONE - SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP L.L.C.
18331864 SEMI-AUTONOMOUS & TOWED IMPLEMENT ROBOTS FOR CROPPING APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Tensorfield Agriculture, Inc.
17933201 INTELLIGENT GENERATION OF THUMBNAIL IMAGES FOR MESSAGING APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Citrix Systems, Inc.

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