Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: RINK, RYAN J

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 3619 3664 3665

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

78.3%
Allow Rate
+26.3% vs TC avg
506
Total Applications
+10.8%
Interview Lift
901
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 484 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.3%
§101 Eligibility
15.8%
§102 Novelty
44.6%
§103 Obviousness
27.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19152032 DRIVE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18981651 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection SONY CORPORATION
19058894 System for Generating Scene Context Data Using a Reference Graph Non-Final OA Zoox, Inc.
18274909 TRAVEL PLANNING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18859185 CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIKON CORPORATION
19148327 Method for controlling a construction robot, and construction robot Non-Final OA Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
19064268 ROBOT SYSTEM Non-Final OA KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18879973 ROBOT SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, AND ROBOT CONTROL PROGRAM Non-Final OA KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
19269469 EFFICIENT METHOD FOR ROBOT SKILL LEARNING Non-Final OA FANUC CORPORATION
19072562 AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF AERIAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Altec Industries, Inc.

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