Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 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 | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.7% | +21.8% |
| PAUL, DISLER | 1 | 82.2% | +8.6% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.2% | +45.9% |
| LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | 1 | 64.5% | -1.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19089848 | ANALYZING AND DETERMINING CONFERENCE AUDIO GAIN LEVELS | PAUL, DISLER | — |
| 18230886 | Ceiling Tile Microphone Array Enclosure | LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19098786 | AUDIO EQUALIZATION OF AUDIO ENVIRONMENT | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| 18292543 | Muting Specific Talkers Using a Beamforming Microphone Array | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19098786 | AUDIO EQUALIZATION OF AUDIO ENVIRONMENT | MOONEY, JAMES K | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19089848 | ANALYZING AND DETERMINING CONFERENCE AUDIO GAIN LEVELS | PAUL, DISLER | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18292543 | Muting Specific Talkers Using a Beamforming Microphone Array | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18230886 | Ceiling Tile Microphone Array Enclosure | LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | 2694 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
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