Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, BENJAMIN J

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2144 2145 2172 2176 2179 2629

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.7%
Allow Rate
+1.7% vs TC avg
440
Total Applications
+55.3%
Interview Lift
1346
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 408 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.3%
§101 Eligibility
2.3%
§102 Novelty
92.4%
§103 Obviousness
2.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18564561 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING REVIEW INFORMATION Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18749423 CHAT INTERFACE WITH DYNAMICALLY POPULATED MENU ELEMENT Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18564349 ABSTRACTIVE CONTENT TRANSFORMATION Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18470752 METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION Non-Final OA SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
18471966 Methods and Systems for Input Suggestion Non-Final OA Google LLC
18639777 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING A CLOUD CONSOLE FOR USE WITH CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS Non-Final OA ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
18386339 GENERIC WEB PAGE EXTRACTION AND DATA COMPARISON FRAMEWORK Non-Final OA SAP SE
18511111 MERGING MISIDENTIFIED TEXT STRUCTURES IN A DOCUMENT Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18466597 AUTOMATED INFERENCE AND EVALUATION OF DESIGN RELATIONS FOR ELEMENTS OF A DESIGN Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
18704404 PSEUDO HAPTIC SENSE PRESENTATION APPARATUS, PSEUDO HAPTIC SENSE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
17353736 ROBOTIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS INCLUDING USER INTERFACES WITH GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF USER INPUT DEVICES Final Rejection Auris Health, Inc.
18621314 COMMUNICATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM Non-Final OA BEIJING CO WHEELS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
18331780 DISPLAY FOR CONTROLLING AND MONITORING A ROBOTIC GARDEN TOOL Final Rejection TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP
18508366 Prevention of Web Scraping and Copy and Paste of Content by Font Obfuscation Non-Final OA University of South Florida
18341598 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELF-TUNING PERSONALIZATION ENGINES IN NEAR REAL-TIME Non-Final OA YE Ventures, LLC
18644138 VIRTUAL INPUT DEVICE Non-Final OA OXTI Pte Ltd
18513019 INTEGRATED TWO-FRAME EBOOK/MEDIA PLATFORM Non-Final OA VISUALIBLE, INC.

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