Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 1657 2142 2624 2665 2666

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.1%
Allow Rate
+15.1% vs TC avg
700
Total Applications
+24.0%
Interview Lift
1146
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 663 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.0%
§101 Eligibility
17.3%
§102 Novelty
39.7%
§103 Obviousness
30.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18534636 IMAGING SYSTEM, METHOD USED IN IMAGING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM USED IN IMAGING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18772991 Fitness System Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17953225 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING WITH HUMAN-ASSISTED REFINEMENT Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18820562 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18438152 MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18768700 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND STORAGE MEDIUMS FOR ABLATION PLANNING AND PERFORMANCE Non-Final OA Canon U.S.A., Inc.
18534766 SAFETY MONITOR FOR THE INTEGRITY OF AN INSTRUMENT CLUSTER IN A VEHICLE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18303007 TECHNOLOGY TO CONDUCT POWER-EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING FOR IMAGES AND VIDEO Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18789906 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18632353 TOPOGRAM-BASED LOCALIZATION AND/OR ATTENUATION MAPPING IN EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY Non-Final OA Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
18773069 Detection of Text and Non-Text Areas of an Image Non-Final OA Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18917760 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
16976389 POSE INVARIANT FACE RECOGNITION Non-Final OA CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
18590876 INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE ERROR CORRECTION USING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA KLA Corporation

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