Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: MCCORD, PAUL C

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2614 2651 2654 2656 2692 2695

This examiner grants 69% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

69.2%
Allow Rate
+7.2% vs TC avg
619
Total Applications
+26.2%
Interview Lift
1251
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 581 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.7%
§101 Eligibility
9.1%
§102 Novelty
60.3%
§103 Obviousness
19.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18307605 TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION DEVICE AND RECEPTION METHOD Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18915380 TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM Non-Final OA SONY CORPORATION
18827720 MULTITRACK CONTAINER FOR SOUND EFFECT RENDERING Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
18634876 Text-To-Speech Progress-Aware Fulfillment and Response Non-Final OA Google LLC
18537585 SYSTEM(S) AND METHOD(S) FOR UTILIZING GENERATIVE MODEL(S) TO GENERATE A PERSONALIZED INTERACTIVE SUMMARY OF CONTENT THAT IS INTERACTIVE Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18506038 LLM AS A TRANSCRIPTION FILTER Non-Final OA Google LLC
18481803 PROMPT COMPLEXITY FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18540378 VISUALIZATION OF DATA RESPONSIVE TO A DATA REQUEST USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18964942 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF OFFLOADING AUDIO PROCESSING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18403820 Immersive Contextual Audio Effects In E-Books With Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18536053 SCENE BASED AUDIO MIXING FOR GENERATING AUDIO DESCRIPTION CONTENT Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18789533 ADJUSTING PROBABILITY OF AN END-OF-SENTENCE TOKEN IN A GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18565067 TRAINING OF AN OBJECT LINKING MODEL Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18383344 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SHARED AMBIANCE IN VIRTUAL MEETINGS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18459290 FINE-TUNING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18686568 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD USING COMPLEX NUMBER DATA, AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SAME Non-Final OA ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18595675 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEEP LEARNING-BASED COREFERENCE RESOLUTION USING DEPENDENCY RELATION Final Rejection ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18798534 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFER OF SAFETY AUDIO TO AND FROM AN AUDIO PROCESSOR Non-Final OA NXP B.V.
18983691 Spatial Audio Processing Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18734621 Systems and methods for soft event detection with event-level thresholding Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
18239875 TEXT CLUSTERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18851467 REPRESENTATION LEARNING USING INFORMED MASKING FOR SPEECH AND OTHER AUDIO APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
18928305 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID QUESTION ANSWERING OVER KNOWLEDGE GRAPH Non-Final OA AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
18339694 CONTEXTUAL QUERY GENERATION Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18990643 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEGMENTING AUDIO DATA FOR TRANSCRIPTION Non-Final OA Doximity, Inc.

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