Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2669

This examiner grants 72% of resolved cases

Analysis

Geoffrey E Summers serves as a patent examiner in Tech Center 2600, working within Art Unit 2669. The examiner has reached a resolution in 362 cases. The allowance rate for these cases is 71.5 percent. This 71.5 percent rate provides a measure of how often applications are granted. Practitioners can use this data to evaluate the probability of a favorable outcome when an application is assigned to this examiner.

The record shows an interview lift of 35.8 percent. This positive 35.8 percent lift indicates that applications involving an interview are more likely to be allowed than those that are not. This suggests that direct discussion with the examiner is a productive method for resolving issues. Practitioners should consider the 35.8 percent lift when deciding whether to request an interview during prosecution in Tech Center 2600.

The median days to allowance for this examiner is 881. This 881 figure represents the middle point of the time required to move from filing to a patent grant. With 362 resolved cases, this median offers a benchmark for the duration of the prosecution process. These figures assist in managing expectations for both the timing and the results of applications in Art Unit 2669.

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

Performance Statistics

71.5%
Allow Rate
+9.5% vs TC avg
384
Total Applications
+35.8%
Interview Lift
881
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 362 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.2%
§101 Eligibility
14.1%
§102 Novelty
41.8%
§103 Obviousness
29.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18430242 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING VIDEO ANALYTIC OUTPUT Non-Final OA Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
18659411 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Final Rejection TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
18815898 Techniques for Anatomical Segmentation of Medical Images Non-Final OA Stryker Corporation
18852175 DEEP LEARNING ENABLED OBLIQUE ILLUMINATION-BASED QUANTITATIVE PHASE IMAGING Non-Final OA Georgia Tech Research Corporation
18734914 Whole Person Association with Face Hallucination and Screening Final Rejection Google LLC
18806745 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18759732 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18574935 PROCEDURAL VIDEO ASSESSMENT Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18948239 IMAGE FORGERY DETECTION VIA PIXEL-METADATA CONSISTENCY ANALYSIS Non-Final OA PayPal, Inc.
18193150 ADAPTIVE TILE BASED SUPER RESOLUTION Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
18104245 IMAGE ALIGNMENT KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
18518614 METHOD OF LOCAL IMPLICIT NORMALIZING FLOW FOR ARBITRARY-SCALE IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
18821791 IMAGE PROCESSING Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.

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