Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2659

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.3%
Allow Rate
+1.3% vs TC avg
65
Total Applications
+42.0%
Interview Lift
996
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 30 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

33.8%
§101 Eligibility
14.7%
§102 Novelty
41.1%
§103 Obviousness
6.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18303394 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNHANDLED APPLICATIONS IN CONTRASTIVE SIAMESE NETWORK TRAINING Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18952946 HIGHER-ORDER FUNCTION WITH REDUCING FUNCTION PARAMETER TO TRANSLITERATE CHARACTERS Non-Final OA MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
18646336 COLLECTING EMG SPEECH SIGNAL DATA Final Rejection Snap Inc.
18592066 PERSONAL AGENT USING VISION TRANSFORMER Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18966879 SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18582632 Speech Reconstruction System for Multimedia Files Final Rejection Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
19019056 VOICE PROCESSING SYSTEM, VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH VOICE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED Non-Final OA SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18088070 MANUAL-ENROLLMENT-FREE PERSONALIZED DENOISE Final Rejection Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18526712 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT Non-Final OA Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18423789 USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL TO IMPROVE TRAINING DATA Final Rejection Roku, Inc.
18384122 Apparatus And Method For Data Augmentation Non-Final OA New York University
18474591 USING LANGUAGE MODELS TO VERIFY MAP DATA IN MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection 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.
18557644 KEYWORD SPOTTING METHOD BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
18402798 CONTEXTUAL CONVERSATIONAL USER ASSISTANCE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18067937 INCREASING EXPLAINABILITY OF DISCOURSE Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18302180 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
19005511 AI-DRIVEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE NETWORK, SECURITY AND ENTERPRISE IT OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Extreme Networks, Inc.
18962319 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PREDICTING STANCE, SENTIMENT AND SARCASM FROM TEXT DATASET Non-Final OA Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)
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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