Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Brandenburg Labs GmbH has 3 pending office actions in Communications. The actions involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination paths for the current matters.
FAULK, DEVONA E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket is evenly distributed across the listed assignments. Counsel should review each matter independently while coordinating any common communications technology disclosures and claim terminology.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMID, AMMAR T | 1 | 85.3% | +9.7% |
| FAULK, DEVONA E | 1 | 67.2% | +6.7% |
| MCCORD, PAUL C | 1 | 69.3% | +25.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187424 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING A SPECIFIC SEPARATION AND COMBINATION PROCESSING | HAMID, AMMAR T | — |
| 19187557 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING A SPECIFIC HANDLING OF IMAGE SOURCES | FAULK, DEVONA E | — |
| 19187813 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING A SMART DISTRIBUTION OF CALCULATIONS TO PHYSICALLY SEPARATE DEVICES | MCCORD, PAUL C | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187813 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING A SMART DISTRIBUTION OF CALCULATIONS TO PHYSICALLY SEPARATE DEVICES | MCCORD, PAUL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2695 | 1 |
| 2618 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19187424 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING A SPECIFIC SEPARATION AND COMBINATION PROCESSING | HAMID, AMMAR T | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19187557 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING A SPECIFIC HANDLING OF IMAGE SOURCES | FAULK, DEVONA E | 2618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19187813 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING A SMART DISTRIBUTION OF CALCULATIONS TO PHYSICALLY SEPARATE DEVICES | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBrandenburg Labs GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Ammar T Hamid has the most, with 1 of Brandenburg Labs GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.