Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aural Analytics, Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This spread indicates that the company's patent filings are being reviewed by different technical groups within the USPTO, suggesting a range of communications innovations that fall under different jurisdictional boundaries.
CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK is identified as the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions, the workload is split equally among the 2 distinct examiners. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the applications may cover different aspects of communications that require specialized technical expertise. This decentralized prosecution model means that the company must tailor its arguments to the specific requirements of each examiner.
For the applicant, managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners requires a diversified prosecution strategy. The lack of concentration in a single art unit means there is no central technical authority for these filings. With 1 pending office action per examiner, the company must address the specific concerns of two different individuals in two different administrative units. Success in these matters depends on effectively resolving the issues raised in both of the 2 pending office actions.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | 1 | 59.3% | +31.2% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 41.4% | +52.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266563 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION OF FORCED VITAL CAPACITY USING SPEECH ACOUSTICS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18553335 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL SPEECH-BASED EVALUATION OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION | CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | 3d overdue |
| 18266563 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION OF FORCED VITAL CAPACITY USING SPEECH ACOUSTICS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18553335 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL SPEECH-BASED EVALUATION OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION | CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | 2659 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18266563 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION OF FORCED VITAL CAPACITY USING SPEECH ACOUSTICS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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