Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: KIM, JONATHAN C

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2655 2659 4100

This examiner grants 74% of resolved cases

Analysis

Jonathan C Kim, in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2655, has 368 resolved cases. The allowance rate is 73.6, and the median days to allowance is 901. These figures indicate the probability of success within a specific timeframe. The 901-day median pendency is a figure for practitioners to use when forecasting the timeline for a patent grant in this art unit.

The interview lift is 38.7, which is an indicator of the effectiveness of verbal advocacy. This lift provides an increase to the 73.6 baseline allowance rate, suggesting that direct communication is a tool for applicants. For the 368 resolved cases, the data suggests that interviews are a strategy for navigating the 901-day median path. By leveraging the 38.7 lift, practitioners can improve their chances of success and resolve outstanding rejections with this examiner.

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

Performance Statistics

73.6%
Allow Rate
+13.6% vs TC avg
392
Total Applications
+38.7%
Interview Lift
901
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 368 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.9%
§101 Eligibility
11.5%
§102 Novelty
50.8%
§103 Obviousness
10.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19203991 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR INVOKING DIGITAL ASSISTANTS Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
19397858 Systems and Methods for Geometric Experiential Intelligence Non-Final OA AtomBeam Technologies Inc.
18584582 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING REMOTE CONTROL VEHICLE SYSTEM FUNCTIONS USING VOICE COMMANDS Non-Final OA Harman International Industries, Incorporated
18622606 NON-SPEECH SOUND CONTROL WITH A HEARABLE DEVICE Final Rejection Sony Group Corporation
18817147 Debiasing Pre-trained Sentence Encoders With Probabilistic Dropouts Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
18989636 System and Method for Flowsheet Population Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18956107 TRAINING MULTI-MODAL FOUNDATION MODEL Non-Final OA BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18889695 METHOD OF RETRIEVING DATA, METHOD OF TRAINING DEEP LEARNING MODEL, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
18626969 SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FOR CUSTOMERS OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK Final Rejection BOOST SUBSCRIBERCO L.L.C.
18968026 LLM-BASED LABELER DEVELOPMENT ENGINE Non-Final OA eBay Inc.
18794539 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ARTIFICIAL ENTRAINMENT Non-Final OA HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
18132251 PREDICTIVE AUDIO REDACTION FOR REALTIME COMMUNICATION Non-Final OA Modulate, Inc.
18035681 SYSTEM FOR COMPUTING NETWORK-INDEPENDENT APPLIANCE CONTROL USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND USER FEEDBACK Non-Final OA ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
18911903 USER AND OPERATOR PREFERENCE RECONCILIATION FOR PRE-PROMPT ENGINEERING Non-Final OA Insight Direct USA, Inc.
19022814 VOICE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Non-Final OA Dreame Innovation Technology(Suzhou) Co, Ltd.

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