Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: WEAVER, ADAM MICHAEL

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2653 2658 2692

This examiner grants 88% of resolved cases

Analysis

Adam Michael Weaver serves as an examiner in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2653. The examiner has 16 resolved cases, which provide a foundation for understanding prosecution outcomes in this area. The allowance rate is 87.5 percent. This figure indicates that a majority of the applications reviewed by this examiner reach a successful grant. This rate suggests a favorable environment for applicants seeking to secure patent rights within this tech center.

The interview lift is 31.2 percent. This percentage suggests that conducting an interview with the examiner is an effective strategy for increasing the probability of an allowance. Practitioners can use this information to prioritize direct communication during the prosecution process. Additionally, the median days to allowance is 916. This figure represents the typical timeframe for reaching a grant, allowing for forecasting of case pendency and resource management.

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

Performance Statistics

87.5%
Allow Rate
+25.5% vs TC avg
53
Total Applications
+31.2%
Interview Lift
916
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 16 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

29.6%
§101 Eligibility
14.6%
§102 Novelty
52.6%
§103 Obviousness
1.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18906455 VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS Final Rejection TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18152745 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18811995 VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Final Rejection TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
18563235 Length-Constrained Machine Translation Model Non-Final OA Google LLC
18671500 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION BASED ON SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
18690753 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18828759 PITCH CONTROL ALGORITHM Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
19063539 Multilingual Task Evaluation System For Language Models Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18624472 DIGITAL ASSISTANT USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18854360 PERSONALIZED AND DYNAMIC TEXT TO SPEECH VOICE CLONING USING INCOMPLETELY TRAINED TEXT TO SPEECH MODELS Final Rejection MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18642582 CONTEXT-AWARE CONVERSATIONAL MAP FUNCTIONALITY Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18509435 TRAINING DATA IDENTIFICATION AND MODEL SELECTION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18228914 TRANSCRIPTION USING A CORPUS OF REFERENCE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18104146 AUTOMATED TRANSLATION OF MESSAGES WITHIN A GROUP COMMUNICATION SESSION Final Rejection Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18881992 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Honor Device Co., Ltd.
18885243 COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING FAILURE INVESTIGATION FOR IT SYSTEM Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
18787432 DETERMINING SPEED CHANGE RATIO FOR AUDIO SAMPLES Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
18476715 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME EMOTIONAL FEEDBACK TO USER'S WRITING, METHOD THEREOF AND CLASSIFICATION SEVER FOR ANALYZING REAL-TIME EMOTIONAL FEEDBACK Non-Final OA AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION

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