Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: SHARMA, NEERAJ

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2626 2655 2659

This examiner grants 85% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

84.8%
Allow Rate
+22.8% vs TC avg
487
Total Applications
+11.9%
Interview Lift
993
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 466 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

17.4%
§101 Eligibility
28.3%
§102 Novelty
46.6%
§103 Obviousness
6.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18795486 AUDIO DECODER, AUDIO ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DECODED AUDIO SIGNAL, METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ENCODED AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM, AUDIO STREAM PROVIDER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A STREAM IDENTIFIER Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18794906 AUDIO DECODER, AUDIO ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DECODED AUDIO SIGNAL, METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ENCODED AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM, AUDIO STREAM PROVIDER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A STREAM IDENTIFIER Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18947355 AUDIO RESPONSE MESSAGES Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18944731 ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
18191711 On-Device Multilingual Speech Recognition Final Rejection Google LLC
19032597 DEVICE-DIRECTED UTTERANCE DETECTION Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18759532 System and Method for Generating Query Variations of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18732758 METHOD OF ENCODING/DECODING AUDIO SIGNAL AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Final Rejection Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18949505 Authenticating A Call Recording Using Audio Scores Non-Final OA Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18944255 Adaptive Gain-Shape Rate Sharing Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18808347 AUDIO COMMAND INTERFACE FOR A MULTIMEDIA DEVICE Non-Final OA Roku, Inc.
18777524 MULTI-OBJECTIVE PROMPT OPTIMIZATION FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Intuit Inc.
18934565 Audio / Video Processing based on Contrastive Data Non-Final OA Spotify AB

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