Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: WOZNIAK, JAMES S

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2600 2626 2655 2657

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

58.8%
Allow Rate
-3.2% vs TC avg
431
Total Applications
+39.5%
Interview Lift
1329
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 403 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.4%
§101 Eligibility
16.1%
§102 Novelty
42.9%
§103 Obviousness
16.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18646064 INNER SPEECH SIGNAL DETECTION USING ONLINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18612539 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING CONVERSATIONAL INTENT Non-Final OA Snap Inc.
18957250 System For Generating Response To Multimodal Queries Using Multi-Step Reasoning Non-Final OA Google LLC
18701638 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18599600 CASCADED SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR ENHANCED PRIVACY Final Rejection Adeia Guides Inc.
18483678 ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH VOICE CONTROL DIRECTED BASED UPON CONTEXT DATA Final Rejection LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
18676805 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SENSITIVE DATA Final Rejection Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18882877 TEXT GENERATION BY GENERALIZING SAMPLED RESPONSES Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18771779 GENERATING MULTILINGUAL VISION LANGUAGE MODELS UTILIZING CONTRASTIVE LANGUAGE IMAGE PRETRAINING Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18599431 RECIPIENT-SPECIFIC VOICE TONE ADJUSTMENT IN TELEPHONY Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18446509 STEREOPHONIC AUDIO GENERATION Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
19013552 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONALIZING SPEECH RECOGNITION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
18757378 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

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