Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: SAINT CYR, LEONARD

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2626 2658

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Analysis

Leonard Saint Cyr is a patent examiner in Tech Center 2600, assigned to Art Unit 2626. He has 1170 resolved cases. The data shows an allowance rate of 77.4% for these 1170 cases. This 77.4% figure represents the frequency of grants among all resolved cases for this examiner.

The interview lift for Leonard Saint Cyr is 17.9%. This 17.9% lift indicates the change in the probability of allowance when an interview is conducted during prosecution. Practitioners can use this lift to evaluate the potential impact of oral advocacy on their specific applications in Art Unit 2626.

The median days to allowance is 1130. This 1130 day period measures the time from the filing of an application to the issuance of a patent. This median provides a data point for estimating the duration of the examination process for matters assigned to this examiner.

Practitioners should consider the 77.4% allowance rate and the 17.9% interview lift when developing their response strategies. These figures, along with the 1130 day median, offer a statistical overview of the examiner's history in Tech Center 2600.

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

Performance Statistics

77.5%
Allow Rate
+15.5% vs TC avg
1,199
Total Applications
+17.9%
Interview Lift
1129
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1172 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

16.8%
§101 Eligibility
27.3%
§102 Novelty
41.8%
§103 Obviousness
1.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18816240 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
18966731 Message Filtering Based on Dynamic Voice-Activated Rules Non-Final OA Stryker Corporation
19027147 Signal Processing Method and Device Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18721609 INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18981116 DETECTING LONGITUDINAL PROGRESSION OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (AD) BASED ON SPEECH ANALYSES Non-Final OA Genentech, Inc.
19007213 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING ERRORS IN CAPTION TEXT Non-Final OA Adeia Guides Inc.
18977703 DIALOG-DRIVEN APPLICATIONS SUPPORTING ALTERNATIVE VOCAL INPUT STYLES Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18823018 Filling of Non-Coded Sub-Vectors in Transform Coded Audio Signals Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18187938 DYNAMIC GENERATION OF ENHANCED PROMPT VECTORS FOR LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18159316 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VOICE CONTROL Final Rejection Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
19031037 Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices Non-Final OA Sonos, Inc.
18822899 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM)-ENHANCED VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS Final Rejection Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18925194 DATA CONTROL AND CUSTOMIZED REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM LEVERAGING LLM CAPABILITIES Non-Final OA SAP SE
18773685 METHOD TO EVALUATE AND FACT-CHECK AN AI LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CHAT RESPONSE USING DOMAIN- SPECIFIC AND DOMAIN-AGNOSTIC GUIDANCE FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICAL PROVIDER-PATIENT CONSULT Non-Final OA NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
18937475 ANALYSIS AND CLUSTERING OF UNSTRUCTURED COMPUTER TEXT FOR GENERATION OF A STRUCTURED CONVERSATION FLOW FOR A CONVERSATION SERVICE APPLICATION Non-Final OA FMR LLC

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