Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (11%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
5
Communications
56% of docket
3
Semiconductors
33% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POPE, DARYL C 1 85.4% +6.4%
JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 1 83.6% +15.4%
WOZNIAK, JAMES S 1 59.6% +39.4%
AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 1 77.6% +11.3%
BOUZIANE, SAID 1 76.6% +11.6%
SAEED, AHMED M 1 80.8% +12.7%
ALEJNIKOV JR, ROBERT P 1 85.9% +17.4%
FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 1 84.1% +12.2%
HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N 1 81.1% +18.2%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18409755 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN INDIVIDUAL MOTOR PARAMETER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ALEJNIKOV JR, ROBERT P 72d overdue
18321731 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE OF GAMEPAD AND GAME SYSTEM HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N 56d overdue
18797488 MULTI-CHANNEL VEHICLE-MOUNTED SEAT VIBRATION FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 10d overdue
18536278 METHOD FOR REALIZING SPEAKER ARRAY-ORIENTED MULTIPLE FILTER SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 19d
18988947 OUTSIDE PROMPT SOUND OUTPUTTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM POPE, DARYL C 29d
18625254 Handheld Device SAEED, AHMED M 29d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18757378 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM WOZNIAK, JAMES S 9d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18409755 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN INDIVIDUAL MOTOR PARAMETER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ALEJNIKOV JR, ROBERT P 72d overdue
18321731 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE OF GAMEPAD AND GAME SYSTEM HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N 56d overdue
18733601 SPEECH MASKING METHOD AND SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 16d overdue
18629973 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING TEMPERATURE OF MOTOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BOUZIANE, SAID 11d overdue
18797488 MULTI-CHANNEL VEHICLE-MOUNTED SEAT VIBRATION FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 10d overdue
18757378 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM WOZNIAK, JAMES S 9d
18536278 METHOD FOR REALIZING SPEAKER ARRAY-ORIENTED MULTIPLE FILTER SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 19d
18625254 Handheld Device SAEED, AHMED M 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2686 1
2695 1
2655 1
2693 1
2846 1
2831 1
2857 1
2692 1
3715 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18988947 OUTSIDE PROMPT SOUND OUTPUTTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM POPE, DARYL C 2686 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18797488 MULTI-CHANNEL VEHICLE-MOUNTED SEAT VIBRATION FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 2695 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2024
18757378 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM WOZNIAK, JAMES S 2655 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18733601 SPEECH MASKING METHOD AND SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18629973 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING TEMPERATURE OF MOTOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BOUZIANE, SAID 2846 §102 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2024
18625254 Handheld Device SAEED, AHMED M 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18409755 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN INDIVIDUAL MOTOR PARAMETER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ALEJNIKOV JR, ROBERT P 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
18536278 METHOD FOR REALIZING SPEAKER ARRAY-ORIENTED MULTIPLE FILTER SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Dec 12, 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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