Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crestron Electronics Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 5 examiners and 4 art units, indicating distinct examiner assignments with some overlap among technical groups.
TRAN, VU V is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner concentration is reported, so counsel should focus on the individual records while using the shared art-unit context to identify any common examination issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, VU V | 1 | 89.9% | +16.7% |
| PATEL, AMOL H | 1 | 85.6% | +9.3% |
| PAUL, DISLER | 1 | 82.3% | +8.6% |
| KANG, ANNABELLE | 1 | 90.6% | -6.3% |
| LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955170 | LOCK-IN FEATURES FOR ELECTRONICS BOXES | PATEL, AMOL H | — |
| 17989847 | AUTOMATED LOUDSPEAKER DETECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SPECIFIC LOUDSPEAKER EQUALIZATION PROFILE TO IMPROVE LOUDSPEAKER AUDIO OUTPUT | KANG, ANNABELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633162 | MULTI-VOICE CONFERENCING DEVICE TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD | PAUL, DISLER | 15d overdue |
| 17990436 | AUTOMATED DETECTION AND SECURING OF A NETWORK AUDIO DATA STREAM | 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19289350 | CONFERENCING DEVICE USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA OBJECT FOR MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION | TRAN, VU V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2695 | 2 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19289350 | CONFERENCING DEVICE USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA OBJECT FOR MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION | TRAN, VU V | 2491 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 18955170 | LOCK-IN FEATURES FOR ELECTRONICS BOXES | PATEL, AMOL H | 2847 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18633162 | MULTI-VOICE CONFERENCING DEVICE TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD | PAUL, DISLER | 2695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 17989847 | AUTOMATED LOUDSPEAKER DETECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SPECIFIC LOUDSPEAKER EQUALIZATION PROFILE TO IMPROVE LOUDSPEAKER AUDIO OUTPUT | KANG, ANNABELLE | 2695 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17990436 | AUTOMATED DETECTION AND SECURING OF A NETWORK AUDIO DATA STREAM | LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | 2694 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCrestron Electronics Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Vu V Tran has the most, with 1 of Crestron Electronics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
