Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: KIM, PATRICK

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 3613 3621 3628 3629 3688

This examiner grants 26% of resolved cases

Analysis

Patrick Kim is an examiner in Tech Center 3600, working in Art Unit 3613. He has 320 resolved cases, which result in an allowance rate of 26.3 percent. The median days to allowance for these cases is 1336. This 1336 day timeline and the 26.3 percent allowance rate suggest a challenging prosecution environment for applicants in this art unit. The 320 resolved cases provide the data for these performance metrics in Tech Center 3600.

The interview lift for Patrick Kim is 33.9 percent. This figure shows that applications with interviews had a higher allowance rate than the 26.3 percent baseline. For the 320 resolved cases, the 33.9 percent lift suggests that interviews have been an effective strategy for increasing the probability of allowance. Practitioners should weigh the 1336 day median pendency against the 26.3 percent allowance rate when managing applications in Art Unit 3613.

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

Performance Statistics

26.3%
Allow Rate
-25.7% vs TC avg
358
Total Applications
+33.9%
Interview Lift
1336
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 320 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

37.6%
§101 Eligibility
8.4%
§102 Novelty
35.6%
§103 Obviousness
17.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19037352 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18952511 DISPATCH MANAGEMENT DEVICE Final Rejection TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
19458010 MEHTODS, ARCHITECTURES AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AUDIBLE CONTENT Final Rejection MILESTONE ENTERTAINMENT, LLC
18727299 BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BATTERY MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND TERMINAL DEVICE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18460424 COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING A PRODUCT REQUIREMENT Non-Final OA The Boeing Company
18221730 GENERATION AND APPLICATION OF EMBEDDINGS FOR LODGING ITEMS Non-Final OA Expedia, Inc.
18414979 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING COUPON AND VENDOR DATA Final Rejection Adeia Guides Inc.
18986425 VEHICLE TERMINAL AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR IDENTIFYING A DISPATCHED VEHICLE USING AN AUTOMOTIVE LAMP Non-Final OA KIA CORPORATION
19388057 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMMEDIATE MATCHING OF REQUESTOR DEVICES TO PROVIDER DEVICES Non-Final OA Lyft, Inc.
17732619 V2X SMART TOLLING LEAKAGE PREVENTION Final Rejection FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
19060020 INFORMATION DISPLAYING AND PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR ENABLING SHARING REQUEST BETWEEN MULTIPLE USER DEVICES Final Rejection Rakuten Group, Inc.
18498445 USER INTERFACE WITH ADAPTIVE MAP INDICATING LOCATIONS BASED ON PREDICTED BATCH VOLUME Non-Final OA Maplebear Inc.
18244445 Multi-Computer System for Dynamic Fraud Mapping Interface Generation Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation

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