Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crestron Electronics Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The distribution of 3 examiners for 3 actions ensures that each pending matter is being evaluated by a different individual within the two active art units.
DEANE JR, WILLIAM J is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Although there are 3 distinct examiners, they are grouped within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while individual examiner styles will vary, the 3 pending office actions are being evaluated within a limited number of departmental frameworks. This structure requires the company to navigate 3 different examiner personalities while working within 2 specific departmental environments in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 1 | 82.4% | +2.6% |
| SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 1 | 54.3% | +39.7% |
| KANG, ANNABELLE | 1 | 89.3% | -7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING CONNECTION BETWEEN AN ACTIVE LOUDSPEAKER ASSEMBLY AND A PASSIVE LOUDSPEAKER ASSEMBLY | DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18741028 | ROLLER TUBE TENSION INSERT | SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19006863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING CONNECTION BETWEEN AN ACTIVE LOUDSPEAKER ASSEMBLY AND A PASSIVE LOUDSPEAKER ASSEMBLY | DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18741028 | ROLLER TUBE TENSION INSERT | SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 3634 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 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 |
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