Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2655

This examiner grants 41% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

40.7%
Allow Rate
-21.3% vs TC avg
66
Total Applications
+46.7%
Interview Lift
1063
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 27 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.3%
§101 Eligibility
15.8%
§102 Novelty
54.8%
§103 Obviousness
9.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19019980 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE MODIFICATION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
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.
18605059 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
17932953 Deliberation of Streaming RNN-Transducer by Non-Autoregressive Decoding Non-Final OA Google LLC
18755573 ITERATIVE PROMPT GENERATION LOOP Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18394915 EVALUATING TYPEAHEAD SUGGESTIONS USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18483342 SYNTHESIZING SPEECH IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES IN CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18212408 REVERSIBLE SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18304341 RUNTIME ALIGNMENT OF LANGUAGE MODELS IN CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA CORPORATION
18549575 DEREVERBERATION BASED ON MEDIA TYPE Non-Final OA DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
17995902 AUTOMATED MIXING OF AUDIO DESCRIPTION Non-Final OA Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
18485204 USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO EVALUATE FINE-TUNED LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA ADOBE INC.
18365974 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTHENTICATING USERS Non-Final OA Daon Technology

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