Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 8 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 8 examiners and 6 art units, showing complete examiner dispersion across a smaller set of art-unit environments.
DEANE JR, WILLIAM J is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No repeated examiner concentration is identified in the supplied data, so the portfolio should be managed through coordinated records rather than a single examiner strategy.
The art-unit grouping may help counsel compare treatment of related communications technologies and identify recurring claim or prior-art issues. Those comparisons should inform, not replace, examiner-specific response analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 1 | 82.6% | +2.6% |
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 65.0% | +19.9% |
| SHAH, ANTIM G | 1 | 74.3% | +38.6% |
| SITTA, GRANT | 1 | 72.5% | +13.2% |
| GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 1 | 54.5% | +50.3% |
| WANG, ZHIPENG | 1 | 80.8% | +23.6% |
| PHAM, EMILY P | 1 | 87.4% | +13.5% |
| HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 1 | 81.1% | +18.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321731 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE OF GAMEPAD AND GAME SYSTEM | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 56d overdue |
| 19008589 | METHOD FOR NONLINEARLY CONTROLLING AND COMPENSATING INTERMODULATION DISTORTION OF SOUNDING ELEMENT, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | — |
| 18533098 | PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | PHAM, EMILY P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001633 | CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | — |
| 18969208 | VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM BASED ON DRIVING CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING, AUDIO PLAYING METHOD, AND DEVICE | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
| 18399770 | SPRING VIBRATION GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321731 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE OF GAMEPAD AND GAME SYSTEM | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 56d overdue |
| 19001633 | CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | — |
| 18969208 | VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM BASED ON DRIVING CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING, AUDIO PLAYING METHOD, AND DEVICE | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
| 18406258 | METHOD FOR APPLYING TACTILE DYNAMIC EFFECT AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SITTA, GRANT | — |
| 18399807 | AUDIO REVERBERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18399770 | SPRING VIBRATION GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
| 18533098 | PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | PHAM, EMILY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2837 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19008589 | METHOD FOR NONLINEARLY CONTROLLING AND COMPENSATING INTERMODULATION DISTORTION OF SOUNDING ELEMENT, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19001633 | CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18969208 | VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM BASED ON DRIVING CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING, AUDIO PLAYING METHOD, AND DEVICE | SHAH, ANTIM G | 2693 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18406258 | METHOD FOR APPLYING TACTILE DYNAMIC EFFECT AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SITTA, GRANT | 2622 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18399807 | AUDIO REVERBERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18399770 | SPRING VIBRATION GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | 2115 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18533098 | PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | PHAM, EMILY P | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18321731 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE OF GAMEPAD AND GAME SYSTEM | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAac Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
William J Deane Jr. has the most, with 1 of Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
