Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.

12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 73 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (83%)
§102 only1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
25% of docket
7
Communications
58% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GODBOLD, DOUGLAS 1 83.2% +10.6%
VANG, MENG 1 77.5% +27.9%
TRAN, QUOC DUC 1 85.7% +4.8%
BLAIR, KILE O 1 63.2% +7.9%
WOLF, DARREN E 1 84.9% +15.2%
JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 1 83.6% +15.4%
KANG, TIMOTHY J 1 46.1% +25.0%
NGUYEN, CHAN T H 1 86.2% +2.8%
SMITH, JOSHUA Y 1 68.9% +25.0%
HUANG, WEN WU 1 72.8% +15.7%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18607898 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUAL MICROPHONE WITH CALIBRATED ALGORITHM TO WIDEN SPEECH OUTPUT RANGE FOR A HEADSET DEVICE JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 58d overdue
18648776 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NORMALIZING CAPTURED IMAGES OF A DYNAMICALLY SIZED PRESENTATION AREA TO PRESENT AN ORTHOGONAL AND UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW OF USER-SUPPLIED PRESENTATION MATERIAL TRAN, QUOC DUC 32d overdue
18634801 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPLIT WIRELESS AUDIO CONNECTIVITY FOR A WIRELESS HEADSET WOLF, DARREN E 3d overdue
18430430 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID AUTO EXPOSURE IMAGING CORRECTIONS NGUYEN, CHAN T H 15d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18223385 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE PATTERN IDENTIFICATION HUANG, WEN WU 79d overdue
18607898 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUAL MICROPHONE WITH CALIBRATED ALGORITHM TO WIDEN SPEECH OUTPUT RANGE FOR A HEADSET DEVICE JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 58d overdue
18429682 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND RECOMMENDING PURCHASE OF PERIPHERAL DEVICES FOR AN EXISTING PERIPHERAL DEVICE WORKSPACE BASED ON PERIPHERAL DEVICE WORKSPACE CAPABILITIES KANG, TIMOTHY J 35d overdue
18634801 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPLIT WIRELESS AUDIO CONNECTIVITY FOR A WIRELESS HEADSET WOLF, DARREN E 3d overdue
18785613 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEMANTIC SEARCH SCORING FOR HIERARCHICALLY RELATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTIVITY TOOL-ENABLABLE APPLICATION CAPABILITIES FOR A USER QUERY INPUT AT AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM GODBOLD, DOUGLAS 14d
18648709 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRE-PAIRING FOR A WIRELESS PERIPHERAL DEVICE WITH CONTENTION ARBITRATION FOR A PLURALITY OF POTENTIAL HOST INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS VANG, MENG 19d
18227963 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLISION-FREE JOINING OF WIRELESS INPUT/OUTPUT (IO) DEVICES TO A WIRELESS IO DEVICE NETWORK SMITH, JOSHUA Y 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2691 2
2655 1
2443 1
2634 1
2695 1
3689 1
2638 1
2477 1
2648 1
2466 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18785613 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEMANTIC SEARCH SCORING FOR HIERARCHICALLY RELATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTIVITY TOOL-ENABLABLE APPLICATION CAPABILITIES FOR A USER QUERY INPUT AT AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM GODBOLD, DOUGLAS 2655 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 26, 2024
18648709 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRE-PAIRING FOR A WIRELESS PERIPHERAL DEVICE WITH CONTENTION ARBITRATION FOR A PLURALITY OF POTENTIAL HOST INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS VANG, MENG 2443 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18648776 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NORMALIZING CAPTURED IMAGES OF A DYNAMICALLY SIZED PRESENTATION AREA TO PRESENT AN ORTHOGONAL AND UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW OF USER-SUPPLIED PRESENTATION MATERIAL TRAN, QUOC DUC 2691 §102 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18634677 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AUDIO PRIVACY COVER FOR AUDIO HEADPHONES BLAIR, KILE O 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18634801 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPLIT WIRELESS AUDIO CONNECTIVITY FOR A WIRELESS HEADSET WOLF, DARREN E 2634 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18607898 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUAL MICROPHONE WITH CALIBRATED ALGORITHM TO WIDEN SPEECH OUTPUT RANGE FOR A HEADSET DEVICE JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 2695 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18429682 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND RECOMMENDING PURCHASE OF PERIPHERAL DEVICES FOR AN EXISTING PERIPHERAL DEVICE WORKSPACE BASED ON PERIPHERAL DEVICE WORKSPACE CAPABILITIES KANG, TIMOTHY J 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18430430 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID AUTO EXPOSURE IMAGING CORRECTIONS NGUYEN, CHAN T H 2638 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18227963 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLISION-FREE JOINING OF WIRELESS INPUT/OUTPUT (IO) DEVICES TO A WIRELESS IO DEVICE NETWORK SMITH, JOSHUA Y 2477 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jul 30, 2023
18223385 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE PATTERN IDENTIFICATION HUANG, WEN WU 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18139609 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER PRESENT EVENTS WITH CACHED PRE-AUTHORIZATION BLUETOOTH ® LOW ENERGY (BLE) SECURE PAIRING MECHANISM AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR 2466 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
17732186 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVABLE MAGNETIC NOSE BRIDGE JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2022

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