Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Examiner: MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2659

This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

65.3%
Allow Rate
+3.3% vs TC avg
84
Total Applications
+21.2%
Interview Lift
1096
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 49 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

37.9%
§101 Eligibility
7.8%
§102 Novelty
48.1%
§103 Obviousness
3.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18433492 ANNOTATION REQUESTING DEVICE, ANNOTATION REQUESTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18976231 METHODS AND USER INTERFACES FOR VOICE-BASED USER PROFILE MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18293806 Detection of silent speech Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18589358 SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION WITH MONOLINGUAL DATA Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18744796 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18714677 LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17631695 Paragraph synthesis with cross utterance features for neural TTS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18613959 PROMPT ENHANCEMENT Final Rejection Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18745098 Gesture Playback System Final Rejection Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18955888 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OWN VOICE DETECTION Non-Final OA Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
17929497 FREQUENT LOGIC-RULE SETS FOR ML-BASED DOCUMENT CONTENT EXTRACTION SUPPORT Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18926471 ASSESSING CONVERSATIONAL CONCORDANCE USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18745222 INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC LANGUAGE MODELS AND PRIVATE SERVICES Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17932681 TRANSLATING WEB CONTENT USING ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18262508 TEXT CHAIN GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING YOUZHUJU NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

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