Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2626 2655 2658 4100

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

81.9%
Allow Rate
+21.9% vs TC avg
961
Total Applications
+10.1%
Interview Lift
1158
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 919 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.5%
§101 Eligibility
30.0%
§102 Novelty
33.5%
§103 Obviousness
5.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19013494 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING TRANSLATED TEXT USING TRANSLATION METHOD SELECTED FROM PLURALITY OF TRANSLATION METHODS, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TRANSLATED TEXT Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17570152 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18964128 IMPROVING NATURALNESS OF SPEAKER-ADAPTED SPEECH SYNTHESIS Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18866342 VOICE FEATURE CALCULATION METHOD, VOICE FEATURE CALCULATION DEVICE, AND ORAL FUNCTION EVALUATION DEVICE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18435953 LOW LATENCY AUDIO FOR IMMERSIVE GROUP COMMUNICATION SESSIONS Final Rejection Apple Inc.
17744138 VOCAL RECORDING AND RE-CREATION Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18734624 DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS BY AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT AS A USER ITERATIVELY PROVIDES A SPOKEN UTTERANCE, OR SEQUENCE OF SPOKEN UTTERANCES Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18193809 Method for Controlling a Virtual Assistant for an Industrial Plant Final Rejection ABB Schweiz AG
17979471 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL AND END-TO-END SPEECH RECOGNIZER USING THE SAME Final Rejection ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18040700 Neural Topic Modeling with Continuous Learning Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18574918 Creating Spatial Audio Stream from Audio Objects with Spatial Extent Final Rejection Nokia Technologies Oy
18628518 ADVERB DICTIONARY UPDATE APPARATUS AND ADVERB DICTIONARY UPDATE METHOD Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
18990938 GENERATIVE SPEECH FOUNDATION MODEL PRETRAINING FOR SPEECH EXTRACTION AND RESTORATION Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18431690 SPEECH PROCESSING TECHNIQUE Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18502747 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR SIMILARITY DETERMINATIONS IN CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18365966 USING LANGUAGE MODELS IN AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
19049586 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A VOICE ASSISTED QUALITY INSPECTION Non-Final OA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
18788774 INFERRING USER INTENT FOR ASSISTANCE USING A DISPLAY FREE BODY WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
19001149 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED MULTI-SPEAKER AND MULTI-LINGUAL SPEECH ANALYSIS Non-Final OA eResearch Technology, Inc.
18218953 Accelerometer-Based Voice Activity Detection With Optimized Detection Axis Final Rejection InvenSense, Inc.

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