Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2659

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Analysis

Cody Douglas Hutcheson serves as an examiner in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2659. The examiner has 32 resolved cases, which offers an initial look at their prosecution style. The data shows an allowance rate of 62.5 percent, indicating that a majority of cases in this docket reach a successful conclusion. This 62.5 percent rate provides a helpful baseline for practitioners.

The median time to allowance is 1003 days. This 1003-day timeline represents the typical duration from filing to grant for this examiner. Practitioners should use this figure to manage timelines and expectations for applications in Art Unit 2659. While the 62.5 percent allowance rate is the primary metric, the 1003-day duration is a key secondary factor in prosecution planning.

The interview lift is 37.5 percent, which is a significant figure. This 37.5 percent lift suggests that interviews are an exceptionally effective tool for this examiner. By engaging in direct communication, practitioners can substantially improve their odds of success beyond the base rate. Given the 32 resolved cases, this 37.5 percent lift is a strong indicator that interviews should be a central part of the strategy in Tech Center 2600.

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

Performance Statistics

62.5%
Allow Rate
+0.5% vs TC avg
66
Total Applications
+37.5%
Interview Lift
1003
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 32 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

31.4%
§101 Eligibility
14.1%
§102 Novelty
45.3%
§103 Obviousness
5.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18994678 SPEECH DATA PROCESSING METHOD, SPEECH DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND SPEECH CONTROL SYSTEM Non-Final OA BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
18646336 COLLECTING EMG SPEECH SIGNAL DATA Final Rejection Snap Inc.
18952946 HIGHER-ORDER FUNCTION WITH REDUCING FUNCTION PARAMETER TO TRANSLITERATE CHARACTERS Non-Final OA MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
19017070 COMBINED SENSITIVE TERM DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND CLUSTER Non-Final OA HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18592066 PERSONAL AGENT USING VISION TRANSFORMER Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
19019056 VOICE PROCESSING SYSTEM, VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH VOICE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED Non-Final OA SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18834049 WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION SYSTEM, WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18834190 Sentence Representation Generation for Cross-lingual Retrieval Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18402798 CONTEXTUAL CONVERSATIONAL USER ASSISTANCE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18338432 COGNITIVE ASSISTANT VOICE AMELIORATION MODEL Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18067937 INCREASING EXPLAINABILITY OF DISCOURSE Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18526712 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT Non-Final OA Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18088070 MANUAL-ENROLLMENT-FREE PERSONALIZED DENOISE Final Rejection Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18528116 POSITION-BASED TEXT-TO-SPEECH MODEL Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18372462 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED RESPONSE GENERATION, VALIDATION, AND AUGMENTATION Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18582632 Speech Reconstruction System for Multimedia Files Final Rejection Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18474591 USING LANGUAGE MODELS TO VERIFY MAP DATA IN MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18363101 VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF TEXT ON VOICE MODULATION GRAPH Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18744792 CLASSIFICATION USING A GRAMMAR-CONSTRAINED GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA Shopify Inc.
18165817 Systems and Methods for Language Identification in Audio Content Non-Final OA Spotify AB
18088125 MULTI-FEATURE AI NOISE REDUCTION Non-Final OA ATI Technologies ULC
19005511 AI-DRIVEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE NETWORK, SECURITY AND ENTERPRISE IT OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Extreme Networks, Inc.
17663266 COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHODS PROVIDING ENHANCED LANGUAGE DETECTION AND DISPLAY FEATURES FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTING SESSIONS Non-Final OA CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
18374625 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATING TEXT INTO A SEQUENCE OF CHARACTERS INCLUDING GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS Non-Final OA ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)

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