Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2659

This examiner grants 68% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

68.0%
Allow Rate
+6.0% vs TC avg
193
Total Applications
+34.4%
Interview Lift
993
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 169 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.0%
§101 Eligibility
2.2%
§102 Novelty
88.6%
§103 Obviousness
1.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18233476 NOISE SUPPRESSION DEVICE, NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING NOISE SUPPRESSION PROGRAM Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18652041 DYNAMIC PRIORITIZATION OF CONTEXT AND SIMILARITY SEARCH FOR HETEROGENOUS DATA SOURCES Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
17993013 DUAL-PIPELINE UTTERANCE OUTPUT CONSTRUCT Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
17972061 TELEVISION Non-Final OA REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
18646521 AUDIO CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
17987287 SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL STRUCTURE INCLUDING CONTEXT-DEPENDENT OPERATIONS INDEPENDENT OF FUTURE DATA Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18763073 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EMOTION-CAUSE PAIR BASED ON CONVERSATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTION TO PERFORM METHOD FOR GENERATING EMOTION CAUSE PAIR Non-Final OA Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
18787018 SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL Non-Final OA SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
18307535 Apparatus and method for harmonicity-dependent tilt control of scale parameters in an audio encoder Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18747735 DETECTING INTER-PERSON CONVERSATIONS USING A SMART WEARABLE DEVICE Non-Final OA Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
17942950 USING SCENE-AWARE CONTEXT FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18403464 TRANSLATING A NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM GIVEN IN A SOURCE LANGUAGE INTO AT LEAST ONE TARGET LANGUAGE Non-Final OA Dassault Systemes
18666627 DYNAMIC PARALLEL NESTED LLM PROMPTS WITH STREAMING ACTIONS Non-Final OA SoundHound AI IP, LLC
18403829 METHOD FOR GENERATING CAPTIONS, SUBTITLES AND DUBBING FOR AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA Final Rejection SYNCWORDS

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