Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 4 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | 2 | 73.3% | +20.6% |
| DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 1 | 82.4% | +2.6% |
| SHAH, ANTIM G | 1 | 74.2% | +39.2% |
| SITTA, GRANT | 1 | 72.4% | +13.3% |
| WANG, ZHIPENG | 1 | 80.8% | +23.3% |
| GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 1 | 54.5% | +50.3% |
| 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 2 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 | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006325 | SOUND EFFECT CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | — |
| 18969208 | VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM BASED ON DRIVING CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING, AUDIO PLAYING METHOD, AND DEVICE | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
| 18966030 | IN-VEHICLE SPEAKER SYSTEM | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | — |
| 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 |
| 19006325 | SOUND EFFECT CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | — |
| 18969208 | VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM BASED ON DRIVING CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING, AUDIO PLAYING METHOD, AND DEVICE | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
| 18966030 | IN-VEHICLE SPEAKER SYSTEM | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | — |
| 18406258 | METHOD FOR APPLYING TACTILE DYNAMIC EFFECT AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SITTA, GRANT | — |
| 18399770 | SPRING VIBRATION GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
| 18399807 | AUDIO REVERBERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2692 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 19006325 | SOUND EFFECT CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | 2692 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 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 |
| 18966030 | IN-VEHICLE SPEAKER SYSTEM | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | 2692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 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 |
| 18399770 | SPRING VIBRATION GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | 2115 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18399807 | AUDIO REVERBERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 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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