Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2621 3714 3715 3717

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

76.3%
Allow Rate
+6.3% vs TC avg
879
Total Applications
+18.6%
Interview Lift
1068
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 851 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.1%
§101 Eligibility
25.6%
§102 Novelty
35.3%
§103 Obviousness
18.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19209990 RECONFIGURING REALITY USING A REALITY OVERLAY DEVICE Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18732995 GOLF EVENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH SCORING AND LOCATION TRACKING Non-Final OA PGA TOUR Enterprises, LLC
18755222 INTELLIGENT AGENT PLATFORM FOR VIDEO GAME TESTING Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18656276 CONTEXT-BASED VERSION SELECTION FOR STREAMING VIDEO GAMES Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17733301 NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT GENERATION Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18670644 MAP SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, SERVER, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18057261 COLLISION PREVENTION PRIORITIZATION FOR EXTENDED REALITY Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18706962 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RENDERING ENVIRONMENTS Non-Final OA ORANGE
18779565 LLM-BASED AUDIO SURFACING OF PERSONALIZED GAME RECOMMENDATIONS Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18560947 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE GENARATION METHOD Final Rejection SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
18456909 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NEGATIVE GAMEPLAY BEHAVIOR AND TOXIC GAMEPLAY CONTROL Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18670645 REPLAY OF GAME PLAY BETWEEN A VIDEO FRAME WHERE A SNAPSHOT WAS CAPTURED AND A SELECTED VIDEO FRAME TO BEGIN A NEW GAME PLAY OF A VIDEO GAME Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
18660263 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
18661973 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE Non-Final OA NEXON KOREA CORPORATION
18663492 SELECTIVELY ACTIVATABLE WHEEL FEATURE Non-Final OA IGT
18593457 GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH DEDICATED SYMBOL REEL FOR MODIFYING GAMING OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
18233056 ADVANCED STEREOSCOPIC RENDERING Final Rejection INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY, INC.
18647905 STORAGE MEDIUM, GAME CONTROL METHOD AND GAME SYSTEM Non-Final OA The Pokémon Company
18437990 Predicting the Appearance of Deformable Objects in Video Games Non-Final OA Electronic Arts Inc.
18643560 ONLINE FEEDBACK PLATFORM Non-Final OA The City University of New York
18621285 Synthetic Theater Operations Research Model GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE Non-Final OA United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of the Navy

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