Listed by the USPTO as MCCORD, PAUL C
Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2614 2651 2654 2656 2691 2692 2695
This examiner grants 69% of resolved cases
Paul C. McCord has a 69.3% allowance rate across 587 resolved cases in Art Unit 2614. The median days to allowance is 1251. An interview lift of 25.9% suggests that interviews are an effective tool for advancing cases toward allowance. This lift indicates that practitioners can improve their outcomes compared to the 69.3% baseline by engaging in direct dialogue with the examiner to resolve technical or legal disagreements during the prosecution process.
Sonos Inc., Sony Group Corporation, and Google LLC are his top applicants. LS3 Sonos, Akerman LLP, and Klarquist Sparkman LLP are the leading firms. The 69.3% allowance rate and 1251-day median pendency provide a baseline for applicant expectations in Tech Center 2600. For the audio and technology companies listed, the 25.9% lift is a key tactical advantage. The data suggests that for these firms and their legal representatives, prioritizing interviews is a productive strategy to leverage the 25.9% increase in allowance likelihood and navigate the complexities of their 587 resolved cases.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819441 | MULTI-FEATURE BALANCING FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSORS | Final Rejection | Oracle International Corporation |
| 18922190 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR AUDIO PROCESSING | Final Rejection | Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. |
| 18506038 | LLM AS A TRANSCRIPTION FILTER | Non-Final OA | Google LLC |
| 18766513 | HEARABLE DEVICE TO HEARABLE DEVICE COMMUNICATION USING IMAGE RECOGNITION | Final Rejection | Sony Group Corporation |
| 18307605 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION DEVICE AND RECEPTION METHOD | Final Rejection | SONY GROUP CORPORATION |
| 18403820 | Immersive Contextual Audio Effects In E-Books With Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems | Non-Final OA | QUALCOMM Incorporated |
| 18734621 | Systems and methods for soft event detection with event-level thresholding | Non-Final OA | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. |
| 18789533 | ADJUSTING PROBABILITY OF AN END-OF-SENTENCE TOKEN IN A GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | Final Rejection | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC |
| 18226315 | Automatically Generating Audio Descriptions for Image Content | Non-Final OA | International Business Machines Corporation |
| 18239875 | TEXT CLUSTERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION | Non-Final OA | NVIDIA Corporation |
| 18211650 | SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM | Final Rejection | Hitachi, Ltd. |
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Build Your Strategy69.3% of resolved applications examined by Paul C Mccord were allowed (587 resolved cases), compared with 66.9% across Art Unit 2614 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +25.9 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Paul C Mccord took 1,251 days on average from filing to allowance.
Paul C Mccord examines applications in Art Unit 2614 in Tech Center 2600 (Communications).
