Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: VILLENA, MARK

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2626 2658

This examiner grants 70% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

70.4%
Allow Rate
+8.4% vs TC avg
504
Total Applications
+15.4%
Interview Lift
1350
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 486 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.7%
§101 Eligibility
6.5%
§102 Novelty
75.7%
§103 Obviousness
0.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18297466 SERVER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING USER'S UTTERANCE BASED ON SYNTHETIC VECTOR, AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18645780 SPEECH SIGNAL DETECTION DEVICE Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18767937 ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
18626666 SUMMARIZING SYSTEM, SUMMARIZING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
18760813 DUAL-FILTER KALMAN METHOD FOR ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK CANCELLATION IN HANDS-FREE KARAOKE ENVIRONMENTS Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18793988 Applied Artificial Intelligence Technology for Performing Natural Language Generation (NLG) Using Composable Communication Goals and Ontologies to Generate Narrative Stories Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
18441384 SPEECH INPUT SUPPORT DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18750828 GENERATING LARGE-LANGUAGE-MODEL COMPATIBLE SEQUENTIAL ATTACHMENT-BASED FRAGMENT EMBEDDING MOLECULAR REPRESENTATIONS Non-Final OA Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
18779546 INTERACTIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Whoop, Inc.
18391886 MULTI-PARTICIPANT VOICE ORDERING Non-Final OA SoundHound AI IP, LLC
18711866 SPEECH ENHANCEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA EVOCO LABS CO., LTD.
18658259 DATA EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Juniper Health, Inc.

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