Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

DISH NETWORK L.L.C.

23 pending office actions • 17 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 84 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
2
Due this week
8
Due this month
0
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (8)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%)
20
Medium (87%)
2
Easy (9%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only18 (78%)
§102 only2 (9%)
§112 only2 (9%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
57% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
2
Semiconductors
9% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
30% 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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2 74.1% +23.5%
PARRA, OMAR S 1 74.0% +9.6%
TILAHUN, ALAZAR 1 71.2% +14.3%
KUO, CHENYUH 1 73.2% +53.9%
MENDOZA, JUNIOR O 1 65.5% +22.5%
CHOKSHI, PINKAL R 1 60.4% +29.4%
LIN, JASON K 1 48.7% +34.6%
DAGNEW, SABA 1 37.6% +17.7%
EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI 1 71.5% +20.4%
HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA 1 0.0% +0.0%

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
18776099 AI ONBOARDING IN A CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA 1d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18967803 TEMPORARY TELEVISION RIGHTS SCHEME GRANT BASED ON UNCERTAIN MEASURABLE EVENTS CHOKSHI, PINKAL R 30d overdue
18779738 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT PRESENTATION IN MULTI-DWELLING UNITS EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI 28d overdue
19022580 CENTRALIZED PLATFORM FOR CONTENT AGGREGATION AND SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT KUO, CHENYUH 9d overdue
19019051 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF TELEVISION OR MEDIA DEVICE VIA A SET TOP BOX MENDOZA, JUNIOR O 4d overdue
18796589 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT AD-BASED ROUTING DAGNEW, SABA 6d
18819170 AUTOMATED POLICY ENGINE FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENTS IN STREAMING MEDIA LIN, JASON K 8d
18809172 DISTRIBUTED ACCESS CONTROL FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BOYD, ALEXANDER L 23d
19036469 Unique Remote Experience of Live Event TILAHUN, ALAZAR 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2424 5
2425 3
2421 1
3697 1
3621 1
3626 1
3693 1
2449 1
2419 1
3654 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19063055 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT ITEM RECOGNITION AND ADAPTIVE PACKET TRANSMISSION PARRA, OMAR S 2421 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 25, 2025
19036469 Unique Remote Experience of Live Event TILAHUN, ALAZAR 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 24, 2025
19022580 CENTRALIZED PLATFORM FOR CONTENT AGGREGATION AND SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT KUO, CHENYUH 3697 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2025
19019051 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF TELEVISION OR MEDIA DEVICE VIA A SET TOP BOX MENDOZA, JUNIOR O 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2025
18967803 TEMPORARY TELEVISION RIGHTS SCHEME GRANT BASED ON UNCERTAIN MEASURABLE EVENTS CHOKSHI, PINKAL R 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2024
18819170 AUTOMATED POLICY ENGINE FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENTS IN STREAMING MEDIA LIN, JASON K 2425 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18809172 DISTRIBUTED ACCESS CONTROL FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2424 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Aug 19, 2024
18796589 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT AD-BASED ROUTING DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Aug 07, 2024
18779738 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT PRESENTATION IN MULTI-DWELLING UNITS EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18776099 AI ONBOARDING IN A CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA 3626 §102 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2024
18765047 DYNAMIC GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS TO CONTENT RECEIVERS KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §112 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2024
18633280 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK BANDWIDTH FOR SIMULTANEOUS DATA TRANSMISSION TO MULTIPLE WIRELESS DEVICES CHEN, WUJI 2449 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 11, 2024
18601472 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTED RF SITE ANALYSIS BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 11, 2024
18400884 CORD WINDING SYSTEM RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18396039 CONTINUATION OF CONTENT SERVICES IN THE EVENT OF SIGNAL LOSS BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Dec 26, 2023
18541806 WEATHER BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 2424 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18493641 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO OPTIMIZE UPLINK BAND POWER OUTPUT FROM EARTH STATION UPLINK ANTENNAS SEFCHECK, GREGORY B 2477 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 24, 2023
18366910 DEVICE INSPECTION APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CLEANING NECESSITY AND RELATED METHODS HUANG, DAVID Z 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2023
18364976 INDUCTIVE SENSOR-BASED BATTERY PRESENCE DETECTION IN DEVICE ENCLOSURES AND RELATED METHODS MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 03, 2023
18218362 MESH STORAGE NETWORK TSAI, SHENG JEN 2139 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2023
18211347 Electronic Device Enclosures ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK 3637 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 19, 2023
18315416 DIGITAL DOCUMENT AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT (DDMS) PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §103 Final Rejection 105d overdue Pending May 10, 2023
17944766 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING IMAGES IN AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) ENVIRONMENT MENBERU, BENIYAM 2681 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2022

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