Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, BENJAMIN J

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

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.7%
Allow Rate
+1.7% vs TC avg
435
Total Applications
+55.3%
Interview Lift
1436
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 408 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.7%
§101 Eligibility
9.2%
§102 Novelty
52.9%
§103 Obviousness
18.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18331780 DISPLAY FOR CONTROLLING AND MONITORING A ROBOTIC GARDEN TOOL Final Rejection TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP
18564561 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING REVIEW INFORMATION Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18279378 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DOCUMENT TAG, AND TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18680656 Virtual Bookplates For Electronic Media And Related Systems And Methods Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18679329 USER INTERFACES FOR COLLABORATIVE CONTENT PLAYLISTS Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18389537 MEDIA STREAM STORYBOARD GENERATION Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18471058 NON-ANONYMOUS FUNCTIONS AS ARGUMENTS IN SPREADSHEET ENVIRONMENTS Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18749423 CHAT INTERFACE WITH DYNAMICALLY POPULATED MENU ELEMENT Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18471966 Methods and Systems for Input Suggestion Non-Final OA Google LLC
18725082 LANDING PAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
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.
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
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
18216202 Document Pre-Processing for Question-and-Answer Searching Final Rejection Pryon Incorporated
18644138 VIRTUAL INPUT DEVICE Non-Final OA OXTI Pte Ltd
18611379 MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIO IMAGE SYSTEM Non-Final OA Visual Supply Company
18513019 INTEGRATED TWO-FRAME EBOOK/MEDIA PLATFORM Non-Final OA VISUALIBLE, INC.

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