Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
D&M Holdings Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical variety. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling exactly one of the pending actions. This spread means that no two actions are being reviewed by the same person, even within the 3 distinct art units.
GANMAVO, KUASSI A is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Because the 4 pending office actions are split among different individuals, practitioners should prepare for varied feedback and different examination styles across the portfolio. There is no concentration of workload under a single individual, so each case must be managed as an independent matter. Success will require a flexible approach that can adapt to the specific requirements of the different units and the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest reviewer.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 1 | 70.6% | +20.3% |
| ZHU, QIN | 1 | 87.5% | +3.3% |
| FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 1 | 84.1% | +12.3% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.5% | +45.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041828 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM, WIRELESS SPEAKER, AND GROUP JOINING METHOD FOR WIRELESS SPEAKER | ZHU, QIN | — |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | — |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | — |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | — |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2654 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19041828 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM, WIRELESS SPEAKER, AND GROUP JOINING METHOD FOR WIRELESS SPEAKER | ZHU, QIN | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialD&M Holdings Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Kuassi A Ganmavo has the most, with 1 of D&M Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
