Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Avaya Inc.

Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Avaya Inc. is currently managing 7 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These active matters are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. The parity between the 7 pending office actions and the 7 distinct examiners suggests that different individuals are evaluating the filings, which may lead to different examiner interactions across the portfolio.

ZHANG, LESHUI is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is fewer than the total pending office action count, indicating that the workload is spread across the distinct examiners. The distribution across 7 distinct art units further highlights the technical range of the company's current filings within the Communications sector. This broad prosecution footprint suggests a highly diversified approach to securing intellectual property.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due later (1)

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.

2
Hard (29%)
5
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§101 + other1 (14%)
§103 only5 (71%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
3
Communications
43% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHANG, LESHUI 1 77.9% +35.3%
YONO, RAVEN E 1 38.9% +33.6%
BLAIR, KILE O 1 63.9% +7.9%
AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 1 77.8% +11.4%
BAINS, SARJIT S 1 17.2% +27.2%
STANDKE, ADAM C 1 52.7% +26.6%
NGUYEN, VINH 1 62.7% +69.2%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18066180 PRODUCTIVITY METER OF A CONFERENCE CALL BAINS, SARJIT S 79d
18765480 ADVANCED COACHING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REFINEMENT YONO, RAVEN E —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17008370 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSOLIDATING CORRELATED MESSAGES IN GROUP CONVERSATIONS NGUYEN, VINH 176d overdue
17530959 IDENTIFY RECIPIENT(S) BASED ON CONTEXT AND PROMPT/SUGGEST SENDER TO ADD IDENTIFIED RECIPIENT(S) BEFORE SENDING MESSAGE STANDKE, ADAM C 24d overdue
18066180 PRODUCTIVITY METER OF A CONFERENCE CALL BAINS, SARJIT S 79d
18817009 Auto-Generated Video Tutorials ZHANG, LESHUI —
18765480 ADVANCED COACHING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REFINEMENT YONO, RAVEN E —
18097699 BINDING MULTIPLE AGENT-MATCHING ALGORITHMS AND THE DYNAMIC SELECTION THEREOF AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2695 1
3694 1
2600 1
2693 1
3623 1
2129 1
2453 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18817009 Auto-Generated Video Tutorials ZHANG, LESHUI 2695 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2024
18765480 ADVANCED COACHING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REFINEMENT YONO, RAVEN E 3694 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2024
18398697 PROVISION OF INDICATORS CONVEYING VISUALLY DISCERNABLE SENTIMENTS IN A PARTICIPANT LIST BLAIR, KILE O 2600 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 28, 2023
18097699 BINDING MULTIPLE AGENT-MATCHING ALGORITHMS AND THE DYNAMIC SELECTION THEREOF AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 2693 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2023
18066180 PRODUCTIVITY METER OF A CONFERENCE CALL BAINS, SARJIT S 3623 §101§103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Dec 14, 2022
17530959 IDENTIFY RECIPIENT(S) BASED ON CONTEXT AND PROMPT/SUGGEST SENDER TO ADD IDENTIFIED RECIPIENT(S) BEFORE SENDING MESSAGE STANDKE, ADAM C 2129 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Nov 19, 2021
17008370 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSOLIDATING CORRELATED MESSAGES IN GROUP CONVERSATIONS NGUYEN, VINH 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 176d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2020

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