Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: MCCORD, PAUL C

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

This examiner grants 69% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

69.1%
Allow Rate
+7.1% vs TC avg
610
Total Applications
+26.6%
Interview Lift
1256
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 569 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.5%
§101 Eligibility
6.8%
§102 Novelty
54.0%
§103 Obviousness
20.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18745199 Dynamic Bonding of Playback Devices Non-Final OA Sonos, Inc.
18738169 Playback Device Grouping Non-Final OA Sonos, Inc.
18597873 Systems and Methods for Calibrating a Playback Device Non-Final OA Sonos, Inc.
18514882 ASSOCIATING PLAYBACK DEVICES WITH PLAYBACK QUEUES Final Rejection Sonos, Inc.
17933401 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING SPATIAL AUDIO ASSOCIATED WITH A SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT Final Rejection Sonos, Inc.
18211650 SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM Non-Final OA Hitachi, Ltd.
17965979 Audio Signal Encoding Method, Decoding Method, Encoding Device, and Decoding Device Final Rejection Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18789533 ADJUSTING PROBABILITY OF AN END-OF-SENTENCE TOKEN IN A GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 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
18634876 Text-To-Speech Progress-Aware Fulfillment and Response Final Rejection Google LLC
18537585 SYSTEM(S) AND METHOD(S) FOR UTILIZING GENERATIVE MODEL(S) TO GENERATE A PERSONALIZED INTERACTIVE SUMMARY OF CONTENT THAT IS INTERACTIVE Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18506038 LLM AS A TRANSCRIPTION FILTER Final Rejection Google LLC
18481803 PROMPT COMPLEXITY FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18594199 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL WITH ELASTIC RESOURCES Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18595675 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEEP LEARNING-BASED COREFERENCE RESOLUTION USING DEPENDENCY RELATION Non-Final OA ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18403820 Immersive Contextual Audio Effects In E-Books With Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18537626 INTELLIGENT NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AND USER INTERFACE ELEMENT METADATA Non-Final OA SAP SE
18348793 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED MONITORING OF CHATBOTS FOR CONCEPT DRIFT DETECTION Non-Final OA PwC Product Sales LLC
18536053 SCENE BASED AUDIO MIXING FOR GENERATING AUDIO DESCRIPTION CONTENT Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18207386 AUDIO OUTPUT CONTROL Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18805857 AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION Non-Final OA Spotify AB
18339694 CONTEXTUAL QUERY GENERATION Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18239875 TEXT CLUSTERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18734621 Systems and methods for soft event detection with event-level thresholding Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
18140500 POETRY GENERATION Final Rejection BEIJING SOGOU TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
18251622 Shared Digital Environment for Music Production, Creation, Sharing and the Like Non-Final OA GROUPE BEATCONNECT INC.

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