Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Crestron Electronics Inc.

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

1
Hard (14%)
5
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only5 (71%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
2
Communications
29% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PAUL, DISLER 1 82.2% +8.7%
WILENSKY, MOSHE K 1 75.3% +15.6%
RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 1 93.6% +8.1%
CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 1 74.8% +16.4%
MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD 1 69.7% +37.0%
LAO, LUNSEE 1 75.6% +15.6%
SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 1 76.2% +36.1%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18481606 INDUCTOR APPARATUS OPTIMIZED FOR LOW POWER LOSS IN CLASS D AUDIO AMPLIFIER APPLICATIONS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 5d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18633162 MULTI-VOICE CONFERENCING DEVICE TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD PAUL, DISLER 15d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18116905 MOTORIZED CABLE RETRACTOR MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD 78d overdue
18128059 AUTO DIM AND COLOR ADJUSTING BACKLIGHT FOR A WALL MOUNTED CONTROL DEVICE CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 72d overdue
17991019 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPERATIONAL STATUS OF POWER-OVER-ETHERNET POWERED LOUDSPEAKERS IN AN AUDIO DISTRIBUTION SYTEM LAO, LUNSEE 32d overdue
18057543 CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF A BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 8d
18422324 CARTON HAVING DRILL TEMPLATE ON PANEL WILENSKY, MOSHE K 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2695 1
3726 1
2843 1
2844 1
3654 1
2691 1
2116 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18633162 MULTI-VOICE CONFERENCING DEVICE TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD PAUL, DISLER 2695 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2024
18422324 CARTON HAVING DRILL TEMPLATE ON PANEL WILENSKY, MOSHE K 3726 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 25, 2024
18481606 INDUCTOR APPARATUS OPTIMIZED FOR LOW POWER LOSS IN CLASS D AUDIO AMPLIFIER APPLICATIONS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2023
18128059 AUTO DIM AND COLOR ADJUSTING BACKLIGHT FOR A WALL MOUNTED CONTROL DEVICE CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 2844 Other Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18116905 MOTORIZED CABLE RETRACTOR MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
17991019 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPERATIONAL STATUS OF POWER-OVER-ETHERNET POWERED LOUDSPEAKERS IN AN AUDIO DISTRIBUTION SYTEM LAO, LUNSEE 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2022
18057543 CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF A BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 2116 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Nov 21, 2022

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