Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
25 pending office actions • 11 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 81 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (4%) |
| §103 only | 22 (88%) |
| §102 only | 2 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 2 | 84.1% | +12.2% |
| BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2 | 65.4% | +5.2% |
| CHIN, VIVIAN C | 2 | 10.3% | +10.4% |
| PAUL, DISLER | 1 | 82.2% | +8.7% |
| FISCHER, MARK L | 1 | 67.5% | +28.3% |
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 1 | 70.2% | +20.2% |
| LE, HUYEN D | 1 | 72.8% | +8.2% |
| MAUNG, THOMAS H | 1 | 63.6% | +39.0% |
| HASSAN, ALI MOHAMAD | 1 | 72.7% | +35.7% |
| SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 1 | 84.9% | +8.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668546 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK SUPPRESSION | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 34d |
| 18791810 | INGRESS RESISTANT PORTABLE SPEAKER | PAUL, DISLER | 56d |
| 18771449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 63d |
| 18356976 | AMBIENT NOISE MANAGEMENT TO FACILITATE USER AWARENESS AND INTERACTION | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18465691 | ORIENTATION SENSOR AXIAL SELF-CALIBRATION | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 17d overdue |
| 18371144 | Adaptive Interface in Active Noise Reduction (ANR) Headset | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 9d overdue |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723040 | Coordination Between Media End Devices | MAUNG, THOMAS H | 25d overdue |
| 18465691 | ORIENTATION SENSOR AXIAL SELF-CALIBRATION | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 17d overdue |
| 18679057 | WEARABLE AUDIO DEVICE HAVING WHISPER VOICE INPUT | HASSAN, ALI MOHAMAD | 15d overdue |
| 18371144 | Adaptive Interface in Active Noise Reduction (ANR) Headset | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 9d overdue |
| 18783971 | Machine-Learning (ML) Based Road Noise Cancelation (RNC) | FISCHER, MARK L | 27d |
| 18777128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROADCASTING AUDIO | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 56d |
| 18771449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 63d |
| 18356976 | AMBIENT NOISE MANAGEMENT TO FACILITATE USER AWARENESS AND INTERACTION | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 8 |
| 2695 | 4 |
| 2694 | 4 |
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2699 | 1 |
| 2417 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791810 | INGRESS RESISTANT PORTABLE SPEAKER | PAUL, DISLER | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18783971 | Machine-Learning (ML) Based Road Noise Cancelation (RNC) | FISCHER, MARK L | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18777128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROADCASTING AUDIO | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18771449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18728742 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTING AUDIO CAPTURED BY BEHIND-THE-EAR MICROPHONES | LE, HUYEN D | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18723040 | Coordination Between Media End Devices | MAUNG, THOMAS H | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18679057 | WEARABLE AUDIO DEVICE HAVING WHISPER VOICE INPUT | HASSAN, ALI MOHAMAD | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18668546 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK SUPPRESSION | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18663645 | Open Audio Device | NGUYEN, TUAN DUC | 2699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18650220 | Audio System with Personal Zones | SELLERS, DANIEL R | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18605906 | PORTABLE SPEAKER GROUPING WITH CONTROL FEATURE | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18589365 | EARPIECES WITH CAPACITIVE TOUCH INTERFACES | KIM, PAUL | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18422269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING A PLURALITY OF ISOCHRONOUS STREAMS | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | 2692 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18417097 | Audio Device | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18542010 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING TEMPORAL OVERLAP BETWEEN DATA PACKETS OF BROADCAST STREAMS | MORSE, CASON HENSON | 2417 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18537981 | Acoustic Assembly Detection in Hearing Aid | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18389265 | Open-Ear Headphone | DABNEY, PHYLESHA LARVINIA | 2694 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18376592 | Audio User Interface | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18371144 | Adaptive Interface in Active Noise Reduction (ANR) Headset | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18370965 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH INTERNAL LIGHT CURING | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18465691 | ORIENTATION SENSOR AXIAL SELF-CALIBRATION | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 2695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18356976 | AMBIENT NOISE MANAGEMENT TO FACILITATE USER AWARENESS AND INTERACTION | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18266107 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR VIBROTACTILE AND/OR THERMAL NERVE STIMULATION | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18037869 | Modular Acoustic Systems | BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE | 2691 | §103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18031827 | Electroacoustic Transducer | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
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