Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: RICKS, DONNA J

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2612 2618 2628 2677 2679

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Analysis

Donna J. Ricks serves in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2612, where she has 515 resolved cases. Her allowance rate of 76.7 percent is quite high, suggesting a receptive stance toward the applications she reviews. This 76.7 percent rate indicates that most well-supported applications have a strong chance of reaching a grant.

The median days to allowance for her cases is 1013. This 1013 day timeframe provides a clear expectation for the duration of the prosecution process from start to finish. With 515 resolved cases, the examiner shows a consistent ability to move applications through the system within this 1013 day window while maintaining high allowance levels.

Practitioners may also benefit from the interview lift of 10.3 percent. Although the 76.7 percent allowance rate is already favorable, the 10.3 percent lift indicates that direct discussion can further facilitate the resolution of any remaining concerns. In Art Unit 2612, utilizing this 10.3 percent advantage could be the key to ensuring a smooth path toward the 1013 day median grant.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

76.7%
Allow Rate
+14.7% vs TC avg
540
Total Applications
+10.3%
Interview Lift
1013
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 515 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.9%
§101 Eligibility
11.5%
§102 Novelty
61.9%
§103 Obviousness
9.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18345850 Immediate Proximity Detection and Breakthrough with Visual Treatment Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18824919 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF OPERATING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL VIEWPOINT IMAGE Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18880040 Electronic Device Display Method, Apparatus, and Storage Medium Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
19036577 OVERSMOOTHING PROGRESSIVE IMAGES Non-Final OA Google LLC
17967740 CHAINED ACCELERATOR OPERATIONS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17849106 LOCAL MEMORY TRANSLATION TABLE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18766440 FACIAL EXPRESSION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18832261 DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS Non-Final OA NTT DOCOMO, INC.
18834480 Color And Brightness Adjustment Algorithms Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17820587 HYPER-PERSONALIZED FEATURE MORPHING IN METAVERSE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18921922 CONVERSATIONAL AI PLATFORM WITH RENDERED GRAPHICAL OUTPUT Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18218450 DISPLAY METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Tokyo Electron Limited
19063584 Tile Region Protection Using Multiple GPUs Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18394420 APPLYING TEXTURE PROCESSING TO A BLOCK OF FRAGMENTS IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT Final Rejection Imagination Technologies Limited
18125681 CONTROL STREAM STITCHING FOR MULTICORE 3-D GRAPHICS RENDERING Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18982190 GRAPHICS PROCESSING Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18642353 GRAPHICS PROCESSING Final Rejection Arm Limited
18609713 GRAPHICS PROCESSING Non-Final OA Arm Limited

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