Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: ZHU, RICHARD Z

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2625 2654 2675

This examiner grants 69% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

69.4%
Allow Rate
+7.4% vs TC avg
760
Total Applications
+15.3%
Interview Lift
1201
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 729 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

13.2%
§101 Eligibility
20.8%
§102 Novelty
59.2%
§103 Obviousness
4.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18939275 Audio Codec Bitrate Using Directional Loudness Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18678427 LOSSLESS AUDIO CODING FOR MULTICHANNEL HIERARCHICAL RECONSTRUCTION Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18604138 TEXT DATA PROCESSING METHOD, NEURAL-NETWORK TRAINING METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18597703 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
17733956 PROVIDING MULTISTREAM MACHINE TRANSLATION DURING VIRTUAL CONFERENCES Non-Final OA Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
18512252 APPARATUS FOR VOICE RECOGNITION AND METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection Kia Corporation
18369065 SUPPLEMENTATION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL KNOWLEDGE VIA PROMPT MODIFICATION Non-Final OA SAP SE
18852341 SOURCE SEPARATION COMBINING SPATIAL AND SOURCE CUES Non-Final OA Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
18900327 Machine Learning Model-Based Entity Tracing Non-Final OA Disney Enterprises, Inc.
18212038 CONTEXT BASED TRANSLATION AND ORDERING OF WEBPAGE TEXT ELEMENTS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation

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