Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL | 1 | 66.9% | +28.0% |
| CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 1 | 51.7% | +38.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18374432 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, EARPHONE, HEARING AID, VEHICLE, AND MEDIUM | ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL | — |
| 17166410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A VOICE ASSISTANT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18374432 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, EARPHONE, HEARING AID, VEHICLE, AND MEDIUM | ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 17166410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A VOICE ASSISTANT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2021 |
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