Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
154 pending office actions • 74 art units • 136 examiners • 0 of 154 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 449 patents granted in the last 365 days
Adobe Inc. has 155 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio spans 138 distinct examiners and 75 distinct art units, creating a broad prosecution network with repeated assignments across both examiners and art units. The scale and distribution support centralized portfolio governance, consistent claim terminology, and systematic tracking of examiner-specific positions.
BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That assignment provides one identifiable point for coordinated review, but it represents only a limited portion of the overall docket. Counsel should combine examiner-level preparation with art-unit monitoring, especially where related applications may encounter recurring examination approaches.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 41 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 41 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 7 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 35 (23%) |
| §103 only | 80 (52%) |
| §102 only | 6 (4%) |
| §112 only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 24 (16%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 3 | 63.0% | +18.5% |
| BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | 3 | 52.9% | +57.1% |
| WU, YANNA | 3 | 81.0% | +34.1% |
| DAGNEW, SABA | 3 | 37.4% | +18.1% |
| WELCH, DAVID T | 2 | 81.4% | +26.7% |
| BAGGOT, BREFFNI | 2 | 35.7% | +25.8% |
| BROWN, SHEREE N | 2 | 65.6% | +26.5% |
| HARRISON, CHANTE E | 2 | 68.9% | +29.2% |
| LE, JOHNNY TRAN | 2 | 54.5% | +16.7% |
| THOMAS, SOUMYA | 2 | 66.7% | -25.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19086426 | SEMANTICALLY SELECTING OBJECTS IN VECTOR-BASED DESIGNS | WELCH, DAVID T | — |
| 18956138 | JOINT INTRINSIC LAYERS FROM LATENT DIFFUSION MODELS | WU, YANNA | — |
| 18924508 | GENERATING COLLAGE DIGITAL IMAGES BY COMBINING SCENE LAYOUTS AND PIXEL COLORS UTILIZING GENERATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS | WU, YANNA | — |
| 18481719 | IMAGE AND DEPTH MAP GENERATION USING A CONDITIONAL MACHINE LEARNING | WU, YANNA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18123673 | ANOMALOUS DATA IDENTIFICATION FOR TABULAR DATA | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 56d overdue |
| 18104946 | CLASSIFYING INCORPORATION METRICS | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 31d overdue |
| 17980790 | PREDICTIVE AGENTS FOR MULTI-ROUND CONVERSATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS OF BUNDLED ITEMS | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 22d overdue |
| 18477670 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CLUSTERING USING MACHINE LEARNING | LE, HUNG D | 15d overdue |
| 18295665 | RECOMMENDING BACKGROUNDS BASED ON USER INTENT | TRAN, AMY NMN | 4d overdue |
| 18051364 | GENERATIVE GRAPH MODELING FRAMEWORK | BAKER, EZRA JAMES | 4d overdue |
| 18047335 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CORRECTION | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 4d overdue |
| 18460076 | GENERATING EXPERIMENT METRIC VALUES FOR ANYTIME VALID EXPERIMENTATION | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 5d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18776953 | TRANSFORMING DIGITAL FRAMES USING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE DIGITAL FRAMES | LE, JOHNNY TRAN | 2d overdue |
| 18477735 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL CONTENT GENERATION | DAGNEW, SABA | 5d |
| 17841569 | ADAPTIVE OBJECT SNAPPING FOR PERSPECTIVE IMAGES | BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | 22d |
| 18477772 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEEDBACK-GUIDED CONTENT GENERATION | DAGNEW, SABA | 63d |
| 19086426 | SEMANTICALLY SELECTING OBJECTS IN VECTOR-BASED DESIGNS | WELCH, DAVID T | — |
| 19030212 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION FREQUENCY OPTIMIZATION | BAGGOT, BREFFNI | — |
| 18990216 | FRAME INTERPOLATION FOR MOTION GRAPHICS | BROWN, SHEREE N | — |
| 18975655 | USER INTERFACE FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE EFFECTS DEPICTED IN IMAGES | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 7 |
| 2615 | 7 |
| 2611 | 7 |
| 2617 | 6 |
| 2614 | 5 |
| 3621 | 5 |
| 2126 | 5 |
| 2171 | 4 |
| 2147 | 4 |
| 2174 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19224516 | INTERACTIVE TREE REPRESENTING ATTRIBUTE QUALITY OR CONSUMPTION METRICS FOR DATA INGESTION AND OTHER APPLICATIONS | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 2153 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19217725 | ANONYMIZING DIGITAL IMAGES UTILIZING A GENERATIVE NEURAL NETWORK | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19205479 | MANAGING DIGITAL ASSETS STORED AS COMPONENTS AND PACKAGED FILES | MINCEY, JERMAINE A | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19192026 | COLLABORATION CONTROLS FOR DOCUMENT SECTIONS | DAILEY, THOMAS J | 2447 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19094967 | QUERY-BASED GENERATION OF TRAVERSABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCENES | WU, CHONG | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2025 |
| 19090544 | ADAPTIVE TOKEN COMPRESSION RATIOS FOR EFFICIENT TRANSFORMERS | SAJOUS, WESNER | 2612 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19086426 | SEMANTICALLY SELECTING OBJECTS IN VECTOR-BASED DESIGNS | WELCH, DAVID T | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19071954 | IMPROVED TEXT RENDERING IN GENERATED IMAGES | YANG, ANDREW GUS | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19035556 | GENERATING A DIGITAL VIDEO UTILIZING A SET OF ANCHOR TOKENS TO DENOISE NOISED TOKENS | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19030212 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION FREQUENCY OPTIMIZATION | BAGGOT, BREFFNI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19018306 | SEARCHING FOR IMAGES USING GENERATED IMAGES | PHAM, TUAN A | 2163 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19018530 | DIGITAL CONTENT COEDITING SERIALIZATION SUPPORT | BAYOU, YONAS A | 2499 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19009797 | ORGANIZING A GRAPHIC DESIGN DOCUMENT USING SEMANTIC LAYERS | DEMETER, HILINA K | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18990216 | FRAME INTERPOLATION FOR MOTION GRAPHICS | BROWN, SHEREE N | 2612 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18988635 | DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY USING PROBABILISTIC DATA STRUCTURES | GERGISO, TECHANE | 2408 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18975655 | USER INTERFACE FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE EFFECTS DEPICTED IN IMAGES | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18958415 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SUPER RESOLUTION USING GENERATIVE VIDEO MODELS | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 2669 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18958493 | SELF-IMPROVING DIFFUSION MODELS WITH SYNTHETIC DATA | HARRISON, CHANTE E | 2615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18958842 | STYLE KITS GENERATION AND CUSTOMIZATION | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18957772 | SUBJECT DRIVEN IMAGE EDITING | GE, JIN | 2619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2024 |
| 18957817 | MASKED LATENT DECODER FOR IMAGE INPAINTING | BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | 2613 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2024 |
| 18956138 | JOINT INTRINSIC LAYERS FROM LATENT DIFFUSION MODELS | WU, YANNA | 2615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18955250 | FACILITATING AUTOMATED CAMPAIGN GENERATION VIA A CAMPAIGN ORCHESTRATOR | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954880 | DUAL CROP SAMPLING FOR GENERATIVE INPAINTING | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2667 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18950718 | ATTENTION CONTRAST-AND-COMPLETE FOR INITIAL NOISE OPTIMIZATION IN TEXT-TO-IMAGE SYNTHESIS | BROWN, SHEREE N | 2612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18947407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELIGHTED IMAGE GENERATION | WELCH, DAVID T | 2613 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18948089 | CONTROLLING DEPTH SENSITIVITY IN CONDITIONAL TEXT-TO-IMAGE | MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18946080 | AUGMENTING FUNCTIONALITY OF GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODELS USING A HYBRID ATTENTION METHOD | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 2659 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18942726 | SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION UNDERSTANDING USING MACHINE LEARNING | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2024 |
| 18941647 | REFINING IMAGE MASKS WITH A MASK REFINEMENT NEURAL NETWORK TRAINED ON SIMULATED MASKS WITH POINT-SAMPLING LOSSES | PERLMAN, DAVID S | 2673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18940029 | UTILIZING A MULTI-ENCODER MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE MODEL ARCHITECTURE TO ENHANCE READING ABILITY IN GENERATING QUERY RESPONSES FROM TEXTUAL CONTENT IN DIGITAL IMAGES | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18933259 | GENERATING SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHIC IMAGES BOUND TO INSIGHT-BACKING DATA | DU, HAIXIA | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18925604 | SPATIALLY AWARE COLOR CONDITIONING FOR DIFFUSION NEURAL NETWORKS | DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH | 2677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925290 | REAL-TIME TEXT-BASED DISENTANGLED REAL IMAGE EDITING | ADAMS, CARL | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18924508 | GENERATING COLLAGE DIGITAL IMAGES BY COMBINING SCENE LAYOUTS AND PIXEL COLORS UTILIZING GENERATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS | WU, YANNA | 2615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18916060 | SNAPPING VECTOR OBJECTS TO REFERENCE TRAJECTORIES FOR OBJECT MOVEMENT AND ROTATION | LE, JOHNNY TRAN | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18915622 | GENERATIVE EXPAND IN IMAGE EDITING APPLICATIONS | REPSHER III, JOHN T | 2143 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18916334 | GENERATIVE AUDIO EXTENSION | PENDLETON, BRIAN T | 2425 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18915028 | MAPPING TWO-DIMENSIONAL ("2D") SURFACES TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL ("3D") SURFACES BASED ON CORRESPONDING ANCHOR POINTS | BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18912872 | COLLABORATION SYSTEM USING PROBABILISTIC DATA STRUCTURES | ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | 2431 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18908075 | CONTROLLING COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE IN GENERATED IMAGES | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18908531 | MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR EXPOSURE DEFECT CLASSIFICATION IN IMAGES | ISMAIL, OMAR S | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18903274 | DESIGN DOCUMENT GENERATION FROM TEXT | TITCOMB, WILLIAM D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18903151 | STYLE-BASED IMAGE GENERATION | LE, SARAH | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18894443 | VIDEO GENERATION USING FRAME-WISE TOKEN EMBEDDINGS | DANG, PHILIP | 2488 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18893571 | AUTOMATIC IMAGE CROPPING USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | THOMAS, SOUMYA | 2664 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18893422 | CONTINUALLY EVALUATING AND MODIFYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTANT | KY, KEVIN | 2671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18889767 | GENERATING A CONCEPT GRAPH LINKING TABLES IN A DATABASE TO CONCEPTS FOR QUERIES USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18890216 | CROSS-CHANNEL EVENT STITCHING USING IDENTITY GRAPHS | ANDERSEN, KRISTOPHER E | 2159 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18890428 | Graphics Processing Unit Instancing Control | CHIN, MICHELLE | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAdobe Inc. has 154 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 74 art units and 136 examiners.
Keith D Bloomquist has the most, with 3 of Adobe Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
