Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2655

This examiner grants 44% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

43.5%
Allow Rate
-18.5% vs TC avg
62
Total Applications
+46.9%
Interview Lift
1085
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 23 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.0%
§101 Eligibility
17.1%
§102 Novelty
48.6%
§103 Obviousness
12.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18745778 DECODER AND DECODING METHOD FOR LC3 CONCEALMENT INCLUDING FULL FRAME LOSS CONCEALMENT AND PARTIAL FRAME LOSS CONCEALMENT Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
17995902 AUTOMATED MIXING OF AUDIO DESCRIPTION Final Rejection Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
18755573 ITERATIVE PROMPT GENERATION LOOP Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18597658 INTELLIGENT AREA-BASED SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18431496 GENERATION OF A PERSONALIZED SPEECH REPRESENTATION WITHIN AN AUDIO ENHANCEMENT MODEL Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18119137 AUDIO SIGNAL SYNTHESIS FROM A NETWORK OF DEVICES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18421511 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18605059 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18478272 REDUCING LATENCY IN GAME CHAT TRANSLATION Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18348759 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT TRAINING ON LANGUAGE MODEL BY INCORPORATING NON-FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN LOSS FUNCTION Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18140310 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING PLATFORM Non-Final OA Livegage, Inc.
18485204 USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO EVALUATE FINE-TUNED LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
18304341 RUNTIME ALIGNMENT OF LANGUAGE MODELS IN CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
18061027 GENERATING VARIATIONAL DIALOGUE RESPONSES FROM STRUCTURED DATA FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18398971 PROCESSING AND UTILIZING AUDIO SIGNALS BASED ON SPEECH SEPARATION Final Rejection ORCAM TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
18098522 Sound Processing Apparatus and Sound Processing Method Final Rejection Yamaha Corporation
18234787 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDACTION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION FROM VOICE COMMUNICATIONS Final Rejection Red Box Recorders Limited
18344765 DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN DIRECT AND MACHINE GENERATED HUMAN VOICES Final Rejection AONDEVICES, INC.
18108080 METHOD FOR PERFORMING SYNTHETIC SPEECH GENERATION OPERATION ON TEXT Non-Final OA NEOSAPIENCE, INC.
18060341 System and Method for Training Language Models Using Already Trained Language Models Final Rejection Cohere Inc.

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