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Prosecution Insights
Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2172 2486 2626 2653 2655 2658
This examiner grants 83% of resolved cases
Douglas Godbold is a high-volume examiner in Art Unit 2172 within Tech Center 2600, with 1110 resolved cases. The allowance rate is 83.3%, which is very high and indicates a high likelihood of success for applicants. The median days to allowance is 1017, showing a standard prosecution timeline for reaching a grant. With 1110 cases resolved, the 83.3% rate is a robust and reliable metric for practitioners to use when setting expectations.
The interview lift is 10.6%, suggesting that interviews provide a meaningful boost to the already high baseline allowance rate. This 10.6% lift can be used to resolve any final issues and ensure the application stays on the 1017-day path to issuance. Because the examiner has handled so many cases, their patterns are well-established and predictable. Practitioners should find the process to be relatively straightforward, with the 83.3% allowance rate serving as a strong indicator of a favorable outcome for most well-prepared filings.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858696 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION METHOD THEREFOR | Final Rejection | LG ELECTRONICS INC. |
| 19028941 | NATURAL ASSISTANT INTERACTION | Non-Final OA | Apple Inc. |
| 19056511 | QUESTION RESPONSE APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation |
| 19101189 | REVERBERATION CANCELLATION FRAMEWORK | Non-Final OA | Google LLC |
| 18952607 | GENERATING AUDIO WAVEFORMS USING ENCODER AND DECODER NEURAL NETWORKS | Non-Final OA | Google LLC |
| 18944852 | TOOL-USE REPRESENTATION FOR GENERATIVE MODELS | Non-Final OA | GOOGLE LLC |
| 18923399 | Method and System of Intelligent Dynamic Voice Enhancement | Final Rejection | Harman International Industries, Incorporated |
| 18910778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDIO LIMITING IN CALL DOWNLINK ALGORITHM | Final Rejection | HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED |
| 18406351 | CODING AND DECODING OF PULSE AND RESIDUAL PARTS OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL | Final Rejection | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. |
| 18925354 | BURST FRAME ERROR HANDLING | Final Rejection | Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) |
| 18755364 | Machine Learning Based Rules Compiler for Part-Of-Speech Tagging | Non-Final OA | Open Text Corporation |
| 18952885 | DYNAMIC DATA AUGMENTATION BASED ON EXTERNAL HISTORICAL DATA | Non-Final OA | ServiceNow, Inc. |
| 18840066 | CODED SPEECH ENHANCEMENT BASED ON DEEP GENERATIVE MODEL | Non-Final OA | DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB |
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