Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
1,251 pending office actions • 284 art units • 962 examiners • 159 of 1,251 (13%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3,130 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apple Inc. has 1275 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio spans 989 distinct examiners and 284 distinct art units, indicating a very broad prosecution operation across examiners and technical groups.
WILSON, ADRIAN S is the busiest examiner, with 7 pending actions. The reported workload is therefore distributed across a large examiner population rather than centered on one individual. Effective management will require centralized docket systems, standardized response-quality controls, and technical coordination across art units, while preserving examiner-specific strategies where the record supports them.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 252 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. 252 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 | 35 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 102 (8%) |
| §103 only | 556 (44%) |
| §102 only | 72 (6%) |
| §112 only | 17 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 37 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 20 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 398 (32%) |
| No statute on record | 14 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, ADRIAN S | 7 | 72.8% | +16.3% |
| TOPGYAL, GELEK W | 6 | 59.6% | +19.3% |
| LAM, VINH TANG | 5 | 72.7% | +8.6% |
| SITTA, GRANT | 5 | 72.5% | +13.2% |
| LU, HUA | 5 | 69.3% | +26.5% |
| HUYNH, LINDA TANG | 5 | 38.8% | +31.3% |
| BIBBEE, CHAYCE R | 5 | 63.5% | +4.4% |
| NGUYEN, BAO G | 5 | 73.8% | +4.0% |
| GYAWALI, BIPIN | 4 | 59.4% | +0.7% |
| DEAN, JR, JOSEPH E | 4 | 87.2% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19101206 | Methods for Sidelink Positioning Measurements | DEAN, JR, JOSEPH E | — |
| 18887593 | DYNAMIC eSIM CUSTOMIZATION WITH PRESET TEMPLATES | DEAN, JR, JOSEPH E | — |
| 18705297 | ATTENTION COMMANDS FOR MULTI-SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE DEVICES | DEAN, JR, JOSEPH E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658815 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HANDLING OF INTERRUPTIONS | ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED | 161d overdue |
| 18593934 | ADJUSTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | BIBBEE, CHAYCE R | 147d overdue |
| 17837964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING BATTERY TEMPERATURE | BECKER, BRANDON J | 147d overdue |
| 18671116 | Electronic Devices With Proximity Sensors | REED, STEPHEN T | 146d overdue |
| 18481051 | Methods for PRS Bandwidth Aggregation for Downlink Positioning | CASTANEYRA, RICARDO H | 117d overdue |
| 18772759 | VALIDATING ONLINE ACCESS TO SECURE DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY | DAGNEW, SABA | 92d overdue |
| 18140464 | SECURITY MODEL AND INTERFACE FOR DIGITAL PURCHASES ON A WEARABLE DEVICE | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 79d overdue |
| 18383858 | MUTABLE PARAMETERS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS DURING RUNTIME | DAO, TUAN C. | 71d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19028900 | Grouping Maneuvers For Display In A Navigation Presentation | TOPGYAL, GELEK W | 43d overdue |
| 19028948 | Grouping Maneuvers For Display In A Navigation Presentation | TOPGYAL, GELEK W | 43d overdue |
| 19028978 | Grouping Maneuvers For Display In A Navigation Presentation | TOPGYAL, GELEK W | 31d overdue |
| 18410601 | CURSOR TRANSPORT | HUYNH, LINDA TANG | 26d overdue |
| 19202618 | State Machine and Rejection Criterion for UI Gesture Invocation | SITTA, GRANT | 19d |
| 18675723 | Active and Inactive Mode Transitions for User Input | SITTA, GRANT | 20d |
| 19020406 | Pinch Recognition Using Finger Zones | SITTA, GRANT | 27d |
| 19029086 | Grouping Maneuvers For Display In A Navigation Presentation | TOPGYAL, GELEK W | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 33 |
| 2841 | 25 |
| 2625 | 22 |
| 2172 | 20 |
| 2469 | 20 |
| 3791 | 18 |
| 2647 | 16 |
| 2474 | 15 |
| 2649 | 14 |
| 2477 | 14 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19572322 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING TRANSACTION TOKENS TO FACILITATE RECONCILIATION PROCEDURES | WORJLOH, JALATEE | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2026 |
| 19531585 | USER INTERFACES AND TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING USER ACTIVITY | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | 2621 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2026 |
| 19441681 | ACCESSING FUNCTIONS OF EXTERNAL DEVICES USING REALITY INTERFACES | PHAM, LONG D | 2623 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2026 |
| 19409329 | USER INTERFACES BASED ON AMBIENT CONDITIONS | MERCEDES, DISMERY E | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19401075 | TOUCH ELECTRODE ARCHITECTURE FOR TOUCH SCREEN INCLUDING TOUCH ELECTRODE-FREE REGION | KETEMA, BENYAM | 2626 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2025 |
| 19379531 | EYE MODEL ENROLLMENT | EDWARDS, MARK | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19370228 | USER INTERFACES AND TECHNIQUES FOR PRESENTING CONTENT | NGUYEN, JIMMY H | 2626 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19363546 | PHOTO-SENSING ENABLED DISPLAY FOR STYLUS DETECTION | SNYDER, ADAM J | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2025 |
| 19362085 | SYNCHRONIZING INFORMATION ACROSS APPLICATIONS FOR RECOMMENDING RELATED CONTENT | BANTAMOI, ANTHONY | 2422 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19359460 | MULTIDEVICE NOTIFICATION SYNCHRONIZATION | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 3682 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19474169 | Signaling Base-Mesh Motion Vectors for Video-Based Mesh Coding | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19353471 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS USING A DIGITAL ASSISTANT BASED ON A DISPLAYED APPLICATION | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | 2159 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19341961 | Dithering Circuitry for Content-Addressable Electronic Display | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19341949 | Column Driver Circuitry for Content-Addressable Electronic Display | LAM, VINH TANG | 2628 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19340547 | Gating Surface Touch Sensor based on Hand and Object Proximity | ABEBE, SOSINA | 2626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19337404 | POSE-BASED HAPTIC FEEDBACK FOR ELECTRONIC POINTING DEVICES | ONYEKABA, AMY | 2628 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19336323 | CASCADING APPROACH TO DETECTING AND INTERPRETING USER ACTIVITY | ELAHI, TOWFIQ | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19334721 | Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Providing Application Functions and Device Functions | BUTCHER, BRIAN M | 2627 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19328334 | INPUT RECOGNITION BASED ON DISTINGUISHING DIRECT AND INDIRECT USER INTERACTIONS | SITTA, GRANT | 2622 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19327823 | WAVY ELECTRODES FOR REDUCED STRAIN TOUCH SENSOR PANEL | COHEN, YARON | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 19326540 | METHODS FOR DISPLAYING AND REPOSITIONING OBJECTS IN AN ENVIRONMENT | KETEMA, BENYAM | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19320968 | Video Compression Methods and Apparatus | ROSARIO, NELSON M | 2624 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19319293 | Controller Creation using Object Scanning and IR Retroreflectors | ILUYOMADE, IFEDAYO B | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19315770 | Hand Tracking System Using Smart Watch and Adaptive Low Frame Rate Camera | SADIO, INSA | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2025 |
| 19315037 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS FOR DETECTION OF TOUCH ON A SURFACE | ALMEIDA, CORY A | 2628 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19312729 | HEAD ROTATION DETERMINATION BASED ON ROUTE TRACING | EARLES, BRYAN E | 2625 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19310090 | Jaw Health Metric Using Headphones | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 3686 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19310763 | Adjusting a Tunable Lens in an Electronic Device | HONG, RICHARD J | 2623 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19307989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-STEP SCANNING OF TOUCH SENSOR PANEL | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2625 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19307451 | Displaying a Rendered Volumetric Representation According to Different Display Modes | CHATLY, AMIT | 2624 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19306729 | Emulating a Mirror With a Lenticular Display | RIDER, JUSTIN W | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19306187 | Separation Notifications for Wireless Accessories | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 2685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19303271 | DATA TRANSFER USING A VIRTUAL TERMINAL | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | 2457 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19303130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RATE CONTROL FOR MULTIPLE PASS VIDEO ENCODING | NOH, JAE NAM | 2481 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19154815 | LAYER 1 AND LAYER 3 MEASUREMENTS BASED ON REDUCED BANDWIDTH | RECEK, JASON D | 2447 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19294108 | USER INTERFACES FOR A MEDIA BROWSING APPLICATION | ALAM, MUSHFIKH I | 2426 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19293435 | Wireless Power Systems With Interference Mitigation | KESSIE, DANIEL | 2836 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19290063 | IN-HOME EVENT INTERCOM AND NOTIFICATIONS | HAILE, BENYAM | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19285861 | GROUP SYNCHRONIZATION WITH SHARED CONTENT | CRAWLEY, KEITH L | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19286221 | Method And Device For Dynamic Sensory And Input Modes Based On Contextual State | RAYAN, MIHIR K | 2622 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19280271 | Graphics Processor Cache for Data from Multiple Memory Spaces | YU, JAE UN | 2138 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19277834 | Identity Management Service Providing Anonymized Email Addresses | WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19276998 | AUTHENTICATED DEVICE USED TO UNLOCK ANOTHER DEVICE | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 2496 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19275969 | Calibrating a Gaze Tracker | LEE, MICHAEL | 2422 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19273540 | Electronic Device That Stores Scene Understanding Data Sets | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19270312 | Multi-View Video Codec | MUNG, ON S | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19259786 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A VISION SYSTEM ASSEMBLY HELD BY A SELF-ALIGNING BRACKET ASSEMBLY | DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | 2486 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19254769 | METHODS FOR MAPPING AN ENVIRONMENT AND RELATED DEVICES | SHAAWAT, MUSSA A | 3661 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19250758 | POWER ACCOUNTING FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER WITH SOFT RESTART | PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19244920 | Dynamic Proximity Boundary for Detecting Proximate Objects | LAM, VINH TANG | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialApple Inc. has 1,251 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 284 art units and 962 examiners.
Adrian S Wilson has the most, with 7 of Apple Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
