Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cerence Operating Company is managing 10 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 10 distinct examiners. The prosecution spans 7 distinct art units.
Alexander J Krzystan is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he only handles 1 pending office action. This indicates a high level of dispersion across the 10 distinct examiners, as each of the 10 pending office actions is assigned to a different person. The presence of 7 distinct art units suggests that the company's communications technology is categorized into several different specialized groups at the patent office. Practitioners should be prepared to handle 10 distinct examiners across these 7 distinct art units. This distribution means that no single examiner's style dominates the current prosecution of the 10 pending office actions. The variety of 7 distinct art units requires a broad understanding of different communications standards.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 3 (30%) |
| §103 only | 4 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.2% |
| GODBOLD, DOUGLAS | 1 | 83.3% | +10.6% |
| PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 1 | 57.0% | +51.2% |
| KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD | 1 | 71.1% | +66.5% |
| DYER, ANDREW R | 1 | 60.0% | +39.6% |
| BRINEY III, WALTER F | 1 | 65.5% | +3.9% |
| OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 1 | 77.1% | +19.4% |
| BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M | 1 | 89.7% | +7.8% |
| HANG, VU B | 1 | 74.8% | +16.9% |
| WASHBURN, DANIEL C | 1 | 50.3% | +30.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18654236 | Multi-Level Warning Based on Driver Sentiment | BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M | 16d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724103 | INTERACTIVE KARAOKE APPLICATION FOR VEHICLES | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 53d overdue |
| 18772459 | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT COMPANION FOR ENGAGING WITH A PERSON IN A MOTOR VEHICLE | KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD | 15d |
| 18772530 | EMERGENT DRIVING ASSISTANT BASED ON EMOTION AND GAZE | DYER, ANDREW R | 63d |
| 19079995 | IN-CABIN AUDIO FILTERING | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
| 18986960 | Federation of Domain-Specific Agents | GODBOLD, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18669946 | Selective Disregard of Speech by an Automotive Assistant | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18894058 | Tiling Based Approach for Unified Destination Entry | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 3d overdue |
| 18772459 | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT COMPANION FOR ENGAGING WITH A PERSON IN A MOTOR VEHICLE | KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD | 15d |
| 18772530 | EMERGENT DRIVING ASSISTANT BASED ON EMOTION AND GAZE | DYER, ANDREW R | 63d |
| 18986960 | Federation of Domain-Specific Agents | GODBOLD, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18669946 | Selective Disregard of Speech by an Automotive Assistant | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | — |
| 18600917 | Coordinating Electronic Personal Assistants | HANG, VU B | — |
| 18057268 | VOICE REINFORCEMENT IN MULTIPLE SOUND ZONE ENVIRONMENTS | WASHBURN, DANIEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2653 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079995 | IN-CABIN AUDIO FILTERING | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18986960 | Federation of Domain-Specific Agents | GODBOLD, DOUGLAS | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18894058 | Tiling Based Approach for Unified Destination Entry | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18772459 | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT COMPANION FOR ENGAGING WITH A PERSON IN A MOTOR VEHICLE | KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD | 2653 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18772530 | EMERGENT DRIVING ASSISTANT BASED ON EMOTION AND GAZE | DYER, ANDREW R | 3662 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18724103 | INTERACTIVE KARAOKE APPLICATION FOR VEHICLES | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18669946 | Selective Disregard of Speech by an Automotive Assistant | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 2653 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18654236 | Multi-Level Warning Based on Driver Sentiment | BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18600917 | Coordinating Electronic Personal Assistants | HANG, VU B | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18057268 | VOICE REINFORCEMENT IN MULTIPLE SOUND ZONE ENVIRONMENTS | WASHBURN, DANIEL C | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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