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Last updated: October 26, 2026

Cody Douglas Hutcheson, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2659

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Analysis

HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS is assigned to art unit 2659 in tech center 2600 and has 34 resolved cases. The allowance rate is 58.8%, with a median of 1008 days to allowance. The limited record should temper broad conclusions, while the timing indicates that prosecution planning may need to account for an extended path.

The interview lift is 28.5%, a notable process signal alongside the 58.8% allowance rate. Practitioners may give interviews a defined role in identifying claim distinctions and narrowing written issues. The listed companies are Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Google LLC, and NEC Corporation. The listed firms are DINSMORE & SHOHL LLP, Gray Ice Higdon (Google LLC), and Greenberg Traurig, LLP - AMD, Inc.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

58.8%
Allow Rate
-3.2% vs TC avg
73
Total Applications
+28.5%
Interview Lift
1008
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 34 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

34.9%
§101 Eligibility
13.8%
§102 Novelty
42.0%
§103 Obviousness
6.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18592066 PERSONAL AGENT USING VISION TRANSFORMER Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
19200850 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RESPONSE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18994678 SPEECH DATA PROCESSING METHOD, SPEECH DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND SPEECH CONTROL SYSTEM Non-Final OA BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
18952946 HIGHER-ORDER FUNCTION WITH REDUCING FUNCTION PARAMETER TO TRANSLITERATE CHARACTERS Non-Final OA MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
18907321 MACHINE-LEARNING BASED AUDIO SUBBAND PROCESSING Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18834049 WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION SYSTEM, WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
19040263 SPEECH-TEXT ALIGNMENT ENGINE IN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18834190 Sentence Representation Generation for Cross-lingual Retrieval Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18067937 INCREASING EXPLAINABILITY OF DISCOURSE Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18474591 USING LANGUAGE MODELS TO VERIFY MAP DATA IN MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18582632 Speech Reconstruction System for Multimedia Files Final Rejection Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18088070 MANUAL-ENROLLMENT-FREE PERSONALIZED DENOISE Final Rejection Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18744792 CLASSIFICATION USING A GRAMMAR-CONSTRAINED GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA Shopify Inc.
18372462 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED RESPONSE GENERATION, VALIDATION, AND AUGMENTATION Final Rejection Adobe Inc.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Cody Douglas Hutcheson's allowance rate?

58.8% of resolved applications examined by Cody Douglas Hutcheson were allowed (34 resolved cases), compared with 62.4% across Art Unit 2659 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Cody Douglas Hutcheson?

This examiner's interview lift is +28.5 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Cody Douglas Hutcheson take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Cody Douglas Hutcheson took 1,008 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Cody Douglas Hutcheson work in?

Cody Douglas Hutcheson examines applications in Art Unit 2659 in Tech Center 2600 (Communications).

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