Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2659

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.5%
Allow Rate
+0.5% vs TC avg
58
Total Applications
+47.1%
Interview Lift
1046
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 24 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

33.9%
§101 Eligibility
14.8%
§102 Novelty
40.9%
§103 Obviousness
7.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18303394 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNHANDLED APPLICATIONS IN CONTRASTIVE SIAMESE NETWORK TRAINING Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18646336 COLLECTING EMG SPEECH SIGNAL DATA Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18582632 Speech Reconstruction System for Multimedia Files Final Rejection Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18592066 PERSONAL AGENT USING VISION TRANSFORMER Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18402798 CONTEXTUAL CONVERSATIONAL USER ASSISTANCE Final Rejection 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.
17865539 TEXT BASED CONTEXTUAL AUDIO ANNOTATION Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18772389 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATIVE AI BASED UNIFIED VIRTUAL ASSISTANT Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18528116 POSITION-BASED TEXT-TO-SPEECH MODEL Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18372462 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED RESPONSE GENERATION, VALIDATION, AND AUGMENTATION Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18088125 MULTI-FEATURE AI NOISE REDUCTION Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
18834049 WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION SYSTEM, WAVEFORM SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
18474591 USING LANGUAGE MODELS TO VERIFY MAP DATA IN MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18088070 MANUAL-ENROLLMENT-FREE PERSONALIZED DENOISE Non-Final OA Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18369672 METHOD FOR MULTIMODAL EMOTION CLASSIFICATION BASED ON MODAL SPACE ASSIMILATION AND CONTRASTIVE LEARNING Final Rejection Hangzhou Dianzi University
18744792 CLASSIFICATION USING A GRAMMAR-CONSTRAINED GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA Shopify Inc.
18302180 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
18423094 SERVERS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION AS A COMPUTERIZED AND/OR NETWORK-PROVIDED SERVICE Non-Final OA Aveva Software, LLC

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