Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: GODBOLD, DOUGLAS

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2172 2486 2626 2653 2655 2658

This examiner grants 83% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

83.4%
Allow Rate
+21.4% vs TC avg
1,121
Total Applications
+10.5%
Interview Lift
1018
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1103 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

15.4%
§101 Eligibility
18.0%
§102 Novelty
47.4%
§103 Obviousness
9.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18406351 CODING AND DECODING OF PULSE AND RESIDUAL PARTS OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL Final Rejection Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
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
18823644 DETERMINING DIALOG STATES FOR LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection Google LLC
18724372 SIGNAL FILTERING APPARATUS, SIGNAL FILTERING METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18925354 BURST FRAME ERROR HANDLING Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
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
18755364 Machine Learning Based Rules Compiler for Part-Of-Speech Tagging Final Rejection Open Text Corporation
18702262 SIGNAL CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
18933611 PERSONALIZED VIRTUAL ASSISTANCE FOR HEARING INSTRUMENT USERS Non-Final OA Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

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