Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2659

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.0%
Allow Rate
+1.0% vs TC avg
58
Total Applications
+51.7%
Interview Lift
980
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 27 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.4%
§101 Eligibility
3.8%
§102 Novelty
82.9%
§103 Obviousness
1.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18646336 COLLECTING EMG SPEECH SIGNAL DATA Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18363101 VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF TEXT ON VOICE MODULATION GRAPH Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
17865539 TEXT BASED CONTEXTUAL AUDIO ANNOTATION Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18834190 Sentence Representation Generation for Cross-lingual Retrieval Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18582632 Speech Reconstruction System for Multimedia Files Final Rejection Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18592066 PERSONAL AGENT USING VISION TRANSFORMER Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18337168 SIMULTANEOUS AND MULTIMODAL RENDERING OF ABRIDGED AND NON-ABRIDGED TRANSLATIONS Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18402798 CONTEXTUAL CONVERSATIONAL USER ASSISTANCE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18338432 COGNITIVE ASSISTANT VOICE AMELIORATION MODEL Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18067937 INCREASING EXPLAINABILITY OF DISCOURSE Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18114984 QUERY FORMATTING SYSTEM, QUERY FORMATTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
18526712 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT Final Rejection Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18088125 MULTI-FEATURE AI NOISE REDUCTION Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
18372462 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED RESPONSE GENERATION, VALIDATION, AND AUGMENTATION Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18834049 WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION SYSTEM, WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18474591 USING LANGUAGE MODELS TO VERIFY MAP DATA IN MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18557644 KEYWORD SPOTTING METHOD BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
18744792 CLASSIFICATION USING A GRAMMAR-CONSTRAINED GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL Final Rejection Shopify Inc.

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