Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2626 2656 2658

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

66.9%
Allow Rate
+4.9% vs TC avg
523
Total Applications
+27.8%
Interview Lift
1393
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 502 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

15.9%
§101 Eligibility
18.3%
§102 Novelty
56.3%
§103 Obviousness
2.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18987833 ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING SPEECH SECTION OF SPEAKER FROM AUDIO DATA Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18129750 CONCEPT-LEVEL TEXT EDITING ON PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18973491 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA LY Corporation
18984848 PARALLEL PROCESSING OF HIERARCHICAL TEXT Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18851983 MULTICHANNEL AND MULTI-STREAM SOURCE SEPARATION VIA MULTI-PAIR PROCESSING Non-Final OA Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
18322444 EVENT EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DEVICE Non-Final OA Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
18139436 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSCRIBING AUDIBLE INFORMATION Final Rejection Logitech Europe S.A.
18956913 Singing Voice Separation with Deep U-Net Convolutional Networks Non-Final OA Spotify AB

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