Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2653 2658

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

81.6%
Allow Rate
+19.6% vs TC avg
68
Total Applications
+18.8%
Interview Lift
1130
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 49 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

18.0%
§101 Eligibility
19.4%
§102 Novelty
57.6%
§103 Obviousness
5.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18814275 JOINT END-TO-END SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING AND AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18596715 ITERATIVE IMPROVEMENT OF SPEECH RECOGINITION, VOICE CONVERSION, AND TEXT-TO-SPEECH MODELS Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18793044 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CLASSIFYING UTTERANCE INTENT CONSIDERING CONTEXT SURROUNDING VEHICLE AND DRIVER Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
18662550 Abridged Multilingual Speech Models For Automatic Speech Recognition Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17579156 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING AND USING TAXONOMY LOOKUP SOURCES IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (NLU) FRAMEWORK Non-Final OA ServiceNow, Inc.
18339883 IDENTIFYING VISUAL TEXT USING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18715103 CLASSIFICATION DEVICE, CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18681251 TEXT GENERATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, TEXT GENERATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18650279 VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE AND VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD Non-Final OA SigmaStar Technology Ltd.
18679620 DEEP CONCEPT SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA Inspirata, Inc.
17577686 SIDEBAR ASSISTANT FOR NOTETAKING IN SIDEBARS DURING VIRTUAL MEETINGS Final Rejection Zoom Video Communication, Inc.

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