Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cerence Operating Company

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (90%)
§102 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
6
Communications
60% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 1 56.2% +50.0%
ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 1 81.8% +16.6%
KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD 1 70.9% +67.7%
DYER, ANDREW R 1 60.1% +38.3%
BRINEY III, WALTER F 1 65.4% +5.2%
YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY 1 71.1% +28.3%
BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M 1 89.8% +7.5%
DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS 1 61.1% +32.1%
ZHU, RICHARD Z 1 69.3% +15.5%
MANSFIELD, THOMAS L 1 50.5% +33.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18787542 TAMPER-ROBUST WATERMARKING OF SPEECH SIGNALS ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 17d overdue
18654236 Multi-Level Warning Based on Driver Sentiment BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M 16d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18285940 Noise Reduction Based on Dynamic Neural Networks DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS 26d overdue
17789538 LOCATION-AWARE REMINDERS MANSFIELD, THOMAS L 23d overdue
18787542 TAMPER-ROBUST WATERMARKING OF SPEECH SIGNALS ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 17d overdue
18894058 Tiling Based Approach for Unified Destination Entry PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3d overdue
18710301 Adaptation and training of neural speech synthesis YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY 13d
18772459 ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT COMPANION FOR ENGAGING WITH A PERSON IN A MOTOR VEHICLE KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD 15d
18105066 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESCRIPTION BASED QUESTION ANSWERING FOR VEHICLE FEATURE USAGE ZHU, RICHARD Z 56d
18772530 EMERGENT DRIVING ASSISTANT BASED ON EMOTION AND GAZE DYER, ANDREW R 63d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2656 2
3658 1
2653 1
3662 1
2692 1
3665 1
2659 1
2654 1
3624 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18894058 Tiling Based Approach for Unified Destination Entry PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2024
18787542 TAMPER-ROBUST WATERMARKING OF SPEECH SIGNALS ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18772459 ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT COMPANION FOR ENGAGING WITH A PERSON IN A MOTOR VEHICLE KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD 2653 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18772530 EMERGENT DRIVING ASSISTANT BASED ON EMOTION AND GAZE DYER, ANDREW R 3662 §102 Final Rejection 63d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18724103 INTERACTIVE KARAOKE APPLICATION FOR VEHICLES BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2024
18710301 Adaptation and training of neural speech synthesis YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 15, 2024
18654236 Multi-Level Warning Based on Driver Sentiment BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M 3665 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending May 03, 2024
18285940 Noise Reduction Based on Dynamic Neural Networks DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS 2659 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18105066 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESCRIPTION BASED QUESTION ANSWERING FOR VEHICLE FEATURE USAGE ZHU, RICHARD Z 2654 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Feb 02, 2023
17789538 LOCATION-AWARE REMINDERS MANSFIELD, THOMAS L 3624 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2022

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