Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: SITTNER, MATTHEW T

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 3626 3629 3682 3688 3689

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Analysis

Matthew T. Sittner has resolved 908 cases in Art Unit 3626. The examiner has an allowance rate of 57.9 percent. The interview lift is 56.1 percent, which is nearly as high as the allowance rate itself. This suggests that interviews are an exceptionally powerful tool for overcoming rejections with this examiner.

The median days to allowance is 1123 days. Practitioners should prioritize interviews given the 56.1 percent lift. The 57.9 percent allowance rate indicates a moderate level of difficulty, but the high lift suggests that many of those allowances are secured following direct engagement with the examiner.

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

Performance Statistics

57.9%
Allow Rate
+5.9% vs TC avg
943
Total Applications
+56.1%
Interview Lift
1123
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 908 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

35.6%
§101 Eligibility
9.4%
§102 Novelty
42.7%
§103 Obviousness
11.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19408620 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Non-Final OA TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18982162 BATTERY REPLACEMENT Final Rejection VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
18952253 MANAGEMENT METHOD, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
19094696 OBJECTIVE FUNCTION SOLVING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTING DEVICE CLUSTER Final Rejection Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
18834202 ATTENTION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH GATED ATTENTION UNITS Non-Final OA Google LLC
19348336 DETERMINING MAINTENANCE INTERVALS USING A COMBINATION OF MODELS Non-Final OA The Boeing Company
18633086 BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH GENERATIVE AI-BASED AUTOMATED MAINTENANCE SERVICE SCHEDULING AND MODIFICATION Non-Final OA Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
19315138 DETECTING RELIABILITY ACROSS THE INTERNET AFTER SCRAPING Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
19361636 System Final Rejection Softbank Group Corp.
19338345 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS USING TRUSTED ON-DEMAND DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING Non-Final OA Siemens Corporation
18229929 MULTI-MODEL INFERENCING FRAMEWORKS AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18601601 Innovative Recombination Recommendation System for Corporate Knowledge Base and Method Thereof Non-Final OA Inventec Corporation
18908603 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCE ENVIRONMENTS Final Rejection DevRev, Inc.
18769395 DOCUMENT PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Final Rejection LegalOn Technologies, Inc.
18595261 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING STOPPING POINT Non-Final OA RELATIVITY ODA LLC

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