Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bang & Olufsen A/S has 4 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, showing that examiner assignments are fully distributed while some technical-group overlap remains.
ELAHEE, MD S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel may compare the matters for common claim language and technical explanations, but the profile supports separate response strategies rather than reliance on a single examiner relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOYNOV, STEFAN | 1 | 89.5% | +12.6% |
| ELAHEE, MD S | 1 | 79.3% | +26.9% |
| POPE, KHARYE | 1 | 66.1% | +21.1% |
| MILLISER, THERON S | 1 | 52.7% | +32.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18237439 | BRACKET ARRANGEMENT FOR SOUNDBAR-TV COMBINATION | MILLISER, THERON S | 16d |
| 19177443 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING DEVICE FEATURES BASED ON DETECTED DEVICE STATE | STOYNOV, STEFAN | — |
| 19177455 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC AUDIO ROUTING BETWEEN DEVICES AND PERIPHERALS | ELAHEE, MD S | — |
| 19174840 | LOCATION BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | POPE, KHARYE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18237439 | BRACKET ARRANGEMENT FOR SOUNDBAR-TV COMBINATION | MILLISER, THERON S | 16d |
| 19177443 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING DEVICE FEATURES BASED ON DETECTED DEVICE STATE | STOYNOV, STEFAN | — |
| 19177455 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC AUDIO ROUTING BETWEEN DEVICES AND PERIPHERALS | ELAHEE, MD S | — |
| 19174840 | LOCATION BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | POPE, KHARYE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19177443 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING DEVICE FEATURES BASED ON DETECTED DEVICE STATE | STOYNOV, STEFAN | 2175 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19177455 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC AUDIO ROUTING BETWEEN DEVICES AND PERIPHERALS | ELAHEE, MD S | 2691 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19174840 | LOCATION BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | POPE, KHARYE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 18237439 | BRACKET ARRANGEMENT FOR SOUNDBAR-TV COMBINATION | MILLISER, THERON S | 2841 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBang & Olufsen A/S has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Stefan Stoynov has the most, with 1 of Bang & Olufsen A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
