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Last updated: October 26, 2026

Alan Gregory Hakala, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2617

This examiner grants 0% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

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Allow Rate
-62.0% vs TC avg
35
Total Applications
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Interview Lift
0
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 0 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.9%
§101 Eligibility
29.9%
§102 Novelty
63.6%
§103 Obviousness
2.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18875015 DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18960721 ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18895428 SMART DISPLAY DEVICE DISPLAYING AN APPEARANCE OF A TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE, SETTING METHOD, METHOD OF USE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF Final Rejection COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
19189788 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPONENT DRAWING Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18912058 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING Final Rejection Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18911964 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, MEDIUM AND PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING A VIRTUAL CHARACTER Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18849961 SPECIAL EFFECT IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18882642 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Beijing ZItiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
19052344 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18926853 Display Method, Apparatus, and Storage Medium Final Rejection Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18358297 32-BIT CHANNEL-ALIGNED INTEGER MULTIPLICATION VIA MULTIPLE MULTIPLIERS PER-CHANNEL Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18947861 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
19201894 SHADOW RENDERING THROUGH GRID-BASED LIGHT RESOURCE CLUSTERING Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
18356382 PREDICTION AND MITIGATION OF HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
19077562 SCALABLE MULTI-MODAL PERCEPTION FRAMEWORK FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18783287 TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTER MOTION PLANNING Final Rejection NVIDIA CORPORATION
18882543 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
18758515 DENSE GEOMETRY FORMAT ENCODINGS AS BASE MESH FOR SUBDIVISION SURFACES Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18816765 STYLE MATCHING USING LAYER-WISE MASKS Final Rejection ADOBE INC.

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Alan Gregory Hakala examines applications in Art Unit 2617 in Tech Center 2600 (Communications).

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