Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

DISH Network LLC

24 pending office actions • 11 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 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.

1
Hard (4%)
17
Medium (71%)
6
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only17 (71%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Double-patenting only5 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
54% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
7
Business / Other
29% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 3 82.7% +13.3%
CASTRO, ALFONSO 2 50.7% +19.1%
CHAE, KYU 1 69.9% +13.4%
SHANG, ANNAN Q 1 70.7% +10.8%
HONG, MICHAEL HYUN 1 74.2% +23.8%
HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 1 81.8% +26.5%
KUO, CHENYUH 1 73.3% +53.1%
LANE, GREGORY A 1 74.6% -0.3%
MENDOZA, JUNIOR O 1 65.5% +22.1%
CHOKSHI, PINKAL R 1 60.6% +29.1%

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
19258714 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND RESTRICTING PLAYING OF MEDIA ASSETS STORED ON A DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R
19209306 TOKEN MERGING FOR LEGACY CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICES NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R
19071417 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING A REDUNDANT NETWORK SOURCE AT A GATEWAY HOSSAIN, KAMAL M
18912405 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLENDING INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS WITH TELEVISION PROGRAMS NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R

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
19263244 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-USER SCREEN SHARING CHAE, KYU

Interview Candidates (12)

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
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
19263244 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-USER SCREEN SHARING CHAE, KYU
19258714 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND RESTRICTING PLAYING OF MEDIA ASSETS STORED ON A DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R
19233330 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULTS FOR PROGRAM CONTENT SHANG, ANNAN Q
19231002 ADVERTISEMENT CACHING FOR TARGETED DELIVERY HONG, MICHAEL HYUN
19209306 TOKEN MERGING FOR LEGACY CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICES NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2425 3
2421 3
2424 3
3697 1
2449 1
2477 1
2139 1
3637 1
3629 1
2163 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19263244 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-USER SCREEN SHARING CHAE, KYU §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 2025
19258714 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND RESTRICTING PLAYING OF MEDIA ASSETS STORED ON A DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2425 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 02, 2025
19233330 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULTS FOR PROGRAM CONTENT SHANG, ANNAN Q DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2025
19231002 ADVERTISEMENT CACHING FOR TARGETED DELIVERY HONG, MICHAEL HYUN DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2025
19209306 TOKEN MERGING FOR LEGACY CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICES NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R DP Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2025
19071417 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING A REDUNDANT NETWORK SOURCE AT A GATEWAY HOSSAIN, KAMAL M §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2025
19061514 IP AUGMENTED TELEVISION STREAMS CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 24, 2025
19022580 CENTRALIZED PLATFORM FOR CONTENT AGGREGATION AND SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT KUO, CHENYUH 3697 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2025
19018673 WIRELESS NETWORK PROVISIONING USING A PRE-SHARED KEY LANE, GREGORY A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 13, 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 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2024
18924090 DYNAMIC CONTENT INSERTION ON A USER-BY-USER BASIS FAN, HUA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2024
18921921 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLEMENTING SET-TOP BOX PROCESSING WITH ADDITIONAL PROCESSOR RESOURCES CHEN, WUJI 2449 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2024
18912405 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLENDING INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS WITH TELEVISION PROGRAMS NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 10, 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
18397490 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING USER ENGAGEMENT WITH CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY THE USER PARRA, OMAR S 2421 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 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
18509070 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL PROGRAM INSERTION IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 14, 2023
18493641 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO OPTIMIZE UPLINK BAND POWER OUTPUT FROM EARTH STATION UPLINK ANTENNAS SEFCHECK, GREGORY B 2477 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Oct 24, 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 §112 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
18076289 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A COMMENTARY RATING DEWAN, KAMAL K 2163 DP Final Rejection Pending Dec 06, 2022
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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