Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2617

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Analysis

Patrick Paul Contrer Galera works in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2617. He has 12 resolved cases. His allowance rate is 75.0%. The median days to allowance for his cases is 896, which establishes the typical timeframe for prosecution in his docket. These data points offer an overview of his work in Tech Center 2600.

The interview lift of 27.3% suggests that direct communication is associated with a higher chance of allowance compared to cases without an interview. For practitioners in Art Unit 2617, this 27.3% lift indicates that interviews are a tool to consider. While the 12 resolved cases are the current sample, the 75.0% allowance rate suggests a disposition for applicants to evaluate. The 896 median days to allowance and the 27.3% lift provide a data-grounded basis for strategy in Art Unit 2617. These figures offer a view of the prosecution environment under his review in Tech Center 2600.

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

Performance Statistics

75.0%
Allow Rate
+13.0% vs TC avg
33
Total Applications
+27.3%
Interview Lift
896
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 12 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.8%
§101 Eligibility
20.3%
§102 Novelty
75.8%
§103 Obviousness
2.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18736112 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR COMBINING A CAPTURED IMAGE AND A VIRTUAL IMAGE, METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
19203750 RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING METHOD Non-Final OA Konica Minolta, Inc.
18796401 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
18684117 FACADE BIASING FOR REFLECTION CORRECTION IN PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECONSTRUCTION Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
19012593 DETECTING GENERATED IMAGES PROMPTED WITH ARTIST NAMES Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
17895888 CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT VIA TIME-SEQUENTIAL PROJECTION OF SCENE CONTENT Final Rejection TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18961413 DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
19061261 Cloud-Based Browser Isolation with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Forking Non-Final OA Zscaler, Inc.
18327182 Systems and methods for browser isolation via a virtualized Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Final Rejection Zscaler, Inc.
18880682 SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SIMULATION Non-Final OA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO
18329813 FUNCTIONAL TESTING OF USER INTERFACE BASED APPLICATIONS USING HEAT MAPS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18724807 PICTURE SHARING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Petal Cloud Technology Co., Ltd.
19058010 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MARKER IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION Non-Final OA CLO Virtual Fashion Inc.

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