Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: GODBOLD, DOUGLAS

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2172 2486 2626 2655 2658

This examiner grants 83% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

83.2%
Allow Rate
+21.2% vs TC avg
1104
Total Applications
+10.5%
Interview Lift
1051
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1079 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

15.0%
§101 Eligibility
19.6%
§102 Novelty
46.3%
§103 Obviousness
8.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18795487 HANDLING VOICE INPUT BASED ON SLOTS WITHIN VOICE INPUT BY VOICE ASSISTANT DEVICE Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18786368 MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS UTILIZING CONTEXT DATA Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18769456 VOICE OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE AND VOICE OPERATION METHOD Non-Final OA JVCKENWOOD Corporation
18615767 FACILITATING USER DEVICE AND/OR AGENT DEVICE ACTIONS DURING A COMMUNICATION SESSION Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18835764 ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD Non-Final OA PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
18611308 LOW-LATENCY NOISE SUPPRESSION Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18725372 MUSIC GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
18747007 METHOD OF ENCODING/DECODING SPEECH SIGNAL AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University
18406351 CODING AND DECODING OF PULSE AND RESIDUAL PARTS OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18702262 SIGNAL CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
18724372 SIGNAL FILTERING APPARATUS, SIGNAL FILTERING METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18650923 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE ACTUATED CONFIGURATION OF A CONTROLLING DEVICE Final Rejection Universal Electronics Inc.
18410794 AUDIO PROCESSING IN MULTI-SPEAKER MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO ENVIRONMENTS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18755364 Machine Learning Based Rules Compiler for Part-Of-Speech Tagging Non-Final OA Open Text Corporation
18792131 Apparatus For Estimating Emotion Using Multimodal Model And Method Of Training The Same Non-Final OA EMMA HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
18788677 ACCELERATED CONTRACT INGESTION AND PROCESSING OF CONTRACT DOCUMENTS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA COGNITUS CONSULTING LLC
18785613 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEMANTIC SEARCH SCORING FOR HIERARCHICALLY RELATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTIVITY TOOL-ENABLABLE APPLICATION CAPABILITIES FOR A USER QUERY INPUT AT AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Dell Products LP
18719004 METHOD OF OPERATING AN AUDIO DEVICE SYSTEM AND AN AUDIO DEVICE SYSTEM Non-Final OA WIDEX A/S
18701416 QUANTUM CIRCUIT DETERMINING METHOD FOR A TEXT, TEXT CLASSIFYING METHOD AND RELATED DEVICES Non-Final OA Origin Quantum Computing Technology (Hefei) Co., Ltd.
18428208 ENHANCED DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Genpact USA, Inc.

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