Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2654

This examiner grants 43% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

42.6%
Allow Rate
-19.4% vs TC avg
92
Total Applications
+36.1%
Interview Lift
1136
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 54 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.5%
§101 Eligibility
26.3%
§102 Novelty
65.6%
§103 Obviousness
1.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18438225 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING SYNTHETIC VOICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18926725 In-Context Data Synthesis for Machine Learning Non-Final OA Google LLC
18830344 STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL MECHANISMS FOR KNOWLEDGE ARTIFACTS ACQUIRED AND APPLICABLE ACROSS CONVERSATIONS Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18794986 MANAGING DATE-TIME INTERVALS IN TRANSFORMING NATURAL LANGUAGE TO A LOGICAL FORM Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
18592776 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION ON SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION USING GROUND TRUTH TRANSCRIPTION FOR TRAINING Final Rejection JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
18127166 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Final Rejection KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
18627022 GRADUAL GRADIENT-BASED PRUNING FOR MULTILINGUAL NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION Final Rejection Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18300930 Efficiently Extendable In-Interpreter Natural Language Agent Final Rejection ServiceNow, Inc.
18455072 DATA EXTRACTION USING DIFFERENT TRAINED MODELS Non-Final OA SAP SE
18509460 AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR PARALLEL CORPORA AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18436261 INTELLIGENT STEWARD PLATFORM FOR VALIDATION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM) OUTPUTS Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
19007878 BIAS DETECTION AND MITIGATION WITH QUADRATIC ALGORITHM SELECTION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18657099 GOAL-DRIVEN INCIDENT SUMMARIZATION Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation

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