Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: NEWAY, SAMUEL G

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2171 2626 2657

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.4%
Allow Rate
+13.4% vs TC avg
715
Total Applications
+7.6%
Interview Lift
1107
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 686 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

16.6%
§101 Eligibility
17.1%
§102 Novelty
34.5%
§103 Obviousness
20.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18597279 DYNAMIC TOPIC DEFINITION GENERATOR Final Rejection Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
18715541 VOICE REGISTRATION DEVICE AND VOICE REGISTRATION METHOD Non-Final OA PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
18563413 NLP-BASED RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT ANALYSIS OF TROUBLE TICKETS Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18525781 AXIOMATIC PREFERENCE MODELS TO SCORE RESPONSES TO PROMPTS Final Rejection MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18457866 SECOND-CHANCE MESSAGE ENHANCEMENTS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18211808 GENERATING GROUNDED DOCUMENTS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18797400 AUDIO-VISUAL HEARING AID Non-Final OA Google LLC
18623888 GENERATING IOT-BASED NOTIFICATION(S) AND PROVISIONING OF COMMAND(S) TO CAUSE AUTOMATIC RENDERING OF THE IOT-BASED NOTIFICATION(S) BY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT CLIENT(S) OF CLIENT DEVICE(S) Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18623064 TEXT AUGMENTATION USING DATASET RECONSTRUCTION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17452609 AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF QUESTION ANSWER PAIRS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18636966 PLANNING PHASE AND GENERATION PHASE FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
18603683 TIME-BASED CONTEXT FOR VOICE USER INTERFACE Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
17528842 VOICE SEARCHING METADATA THROUGH MEDIA CONTENT Final Rejection Disney Enterprises, Inc.
18427606 INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT WORK DEDUPLICATION Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18024129 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPOSITION PROCEEDINGS Final Rejection CLOUD COURT, INC.
18279584 WORD SELECTION SUPPORT DEVICE, WORD SELECTION SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18541035 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A MEASURE OF CONCEPTUAL CONSISTENCY IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection SRI International
18788970 Combined Machine Learning and Large Language Models Non-Final OA Varonis Systems Inc.
18515032 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STRUCTURE DISCOVERY AND STRUCTURE-BASED ANALYSIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODELS Non-Final OA Casetext, Inc.
18738507 MACHINE ASSISTED ANALYSIS OF DOCUMENTS Non-Final OA Agiloft, Inc.
18622069 VOICE-NUDGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDS-FREE MOVEMENT OF A ROBOTIC SURGICAL MICROSCOPE Non-Final OA Synaptive Medical, Inc.
18291782 INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection connectome.design Inc.
18403952 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SILENT SPEECH DECODING Non-Final OA Wispr AI, Inc.
18471513 HALLUCINATION DETECTION AS A METRIC FOR DETERMINING ACCURACY OF RESULTS FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Bitvore Corp.
18218552 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPEECH DETECTION Final Rejection SoapBox Labs Ltd.
18323446 DATA DRIVEN TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATION VALIDATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT Final Rejection Jitterbit, Inc.
18074953 A Method and System for Analyzing a Piece of Text Comprising Chinese Characters Final Rejection Chrysus Intellectual Properties Limited

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