Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dropbox Inc.

35 pending office actions • 30 art units • 34 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 86 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

35
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
24
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 35 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
1
Due this week
10
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 35 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (2)

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.

3
Hard (9%)
32
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (9%)
§103 only31 (89%)
§102 only1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
25
Information Tech
71% of docket
5
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

350 h
Manual time on pending OAs
70 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
122 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 2 29.7% +34.8%
HOANG, HAU HAI 1 77.9% +13.6%
LEE, BRYAN Y 1 66.9% +41.3%
PHAM, TUAN A 1 83.6% +27.1%
GODO, MORIAM MOSUNMOLA 1 43.5% +33.7%
DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 1 54.8% +32.4%
RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 1 4.9% +8.4%
JUNG, ANDREW J 1 57.6% +37.3%
TANG, KAREN C 1 70.2% +24.6%
WENG, PEI YONG 1 79.5% +23.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18882162 CONTENT ITEM PURGING PHAM, TUAN A 87d overdue

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18415036 GENERATING AND VISUALIZING COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVITY SCORES FOR VIDEO CALLS BULLINGTON, ROBERT P 15d overdue
18477008 MANAGING PROJECT TASKS USING CONTENT ITEMS OBAID, HAMZEH M 12d
19195494 AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZING CONTENT COLLECTIONS WITH SMART CONTENT SYNTHESIS AND DYNAMIC FACETS MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 14d
18744216 GENERATING COACHING PROMPTS FROM KNOWLEDGE GRAPH DATA SOURCES MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 15d
18332959 CUSTOMIZABLE AND GRANULAR ANALYTICS TOOL FOR SHARED CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON CUSTOM LINKS SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 20d
18769192 ADAPTIVELY SYNCHRONIZING AND LINKING DIGITAL MEDIA UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 42d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18882162 CONTENT ITEM PURGING PHAM, TUAN A 87d overdue
18638390 CONTENT-ITEM RELATIONSHIP MESSAGING SYSTEM TANG, KAREN C 87d overdue
18823451 CROSS-RELEVANT REFINEMENT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS FOR CREATIVE CONTENT ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS GODO, MORIAM MOSUNMOLA 49d overdue
18752435 LIVE WRITES TO ERASURE CODED VOLUMES WITHOUT PRIOR REPLICATION JUNG, ANDREW J 31d overdue
18614395 NAVIGATING GALLERIES OF DIGITAL CONTENT WENG, PEI YONG 4d overdue
19195494 AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZING CONTENT COLLECTIONS WITH SMART CONTENT SYNTHESIS AND DYNAMIC FACETS MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 14d
18744216 GENERATING COACHING PROMPTS FROM KNOWLEDGE GRAPH DATA SOURCES MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 15d
19189769 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT CONTROL IN A USER INTERFACE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE HOANG, HAU HAI 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2154 3
2174 2
2164 2
2199 2
2445 1
2163 1
2148 1
3626 1
2175 1
2447 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19195494 AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZING CONTENT COLLECTIONS WITH SMART CONTENT SYNTHESIS AND DYNAMIC FACETS MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 2174 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Apr 30, 2025
19189769 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT CONTROL IN A USER INTERFACE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE HOANG, HAU HAI 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 25, 2025
18941541 GENERATING IMPROVED DIGITAL TRANSCRIPTS UTILIZING DIGITAL TRANSCRIPTION MODELS THAT ANALYZE DYNAMIC MEETING CONTEXTS LEE, BRYAN Y 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Nov 08, 2024
18882162 CONTENT ITEM PURGING PHAM, TUAN A 2163 §103 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2024
18823451 CROSS-RELEVANT REFINEMENT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS FOR CREATIVE CONTENT ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS GODO, MORIAM MOSUNMOLA 2148 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Sep 03, 2024
18823463 DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZED RECOMMENDATIONS IN GENERATIVE MEDIA DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Sep 03, 2024
18769192 ADAPTIVELY SYNCHRONIZING AND LINKING DIGITAL MEDIA UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 3626 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Jul 10, 2024
18752435 LIVE WRITES TO ERASURE CODED VOLUMES WITHOUT PRIOR REPLICATION JUNG, ANDREW J 2175 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2024
18744216 GENERATING COACHING PROMPTS FROM KNOWLEDGE GRAPH DATA SOURCES MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 2174 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 14, 2024
18638390 CONTENT-ITEM RELATIONSHIP MESSAGING SYSTEM TANG, KAREN C 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18614395 NAVIGATING GALLERIES OF DIGITAL CONTENT WENG, PEI YONG 2141 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18439525 UTILIZING A FEATURE EXTRACTION FUNCTION WITHIN A DIGITAL SEARCH PLATFORM HASAN, SYED HAROON 2154 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18431297 DOCUMENT DIFFERENCES ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION NAZAR, AHAMED I 2178 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Feb 02, 2024
18425777 MEETING TRANSCRIPTION USING CUSTOM LEXICONS BASED ON DOCUMENT HISTORY SHEN, SAMUEL 2179 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18415024 DETERMINING VIDEO CALL EFFECTIVENESS SCORES FOR ACCOMPLISHING TARGET GOALS NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18415036 GENERATING AND VISUALIZING COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVITY SCORES FOR VIDEO CALLS BULLINGTON, ROBERT P 3715 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18411603 CONTENT ITEM ANALYTICS TIMELINE MORRISON, JAY A 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18395099 INTELLIGENT DOCUMENT CREATION AND REVIEW GENERATED BY A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL KELLS, ASHER 2171 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18507646 SEMI-AUTONOMOUS, AI-POWERED HIGH-ORDER OBJECTIVE DISSECTOR AND TRANSPARENT PROGRESSION SYSTEM HEBERT, THEODORE E 2199 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18495097 SELECTIVELY IDENTIFYING AND RECOMMENDING DIGITAL CONTENT ITEMS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION CHOI, YUK TING 2164 §103 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18482715 CUSTOM INTERPRETER FOR EXECUTING COMPUTER CODE GENERATED BY A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL MITCHELL, JASON D 2199 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18478184 MANAGING MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS WIDHALM DE RODRIG, ANGELA MARIE 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18478066 GENERATING AND MAINTAINING COMPOSITE ACTIONS UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS SULTANA, NADIRA 2653 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18375135 FRAGMENT TIERING BERTRAM, RYAN 2137 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18477008 MANAGING PROJECT TASKS USING CONTENT ITEMS OBAID, HAMZEH M 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18474878 GENERATING AND PROVIDING AGGREGATED FEED INTERFACES SUMMARIZING THREAD DATA ACROSS MULTIPLE DATA FEEDS SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 2659 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18342469 GENERATING AND PROVIDING MORPHING ASSISTANT INTERFACES THAT TRANSFORM ACCORDING TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SIGNALS DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18332959 CUSTOMIZABLE AND GRANULAR ANALYTICS TOOL FOR SHARED CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON CUSTOM LINKS SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §101 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jun 12, 2023
18199184 EMBEDDED SPREADSHEET DATA IMPLEMENTATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION HO, ANDREW N 2169 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending May 18, 2023
18164373 GENERATING USER-SPECIFIC SYNTHETIC CONTENT UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING WITH USER CREATED CONTENT ITEMS SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18160795 MANAGING REMINDERS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM NOVAK, REBECCA R 3629 §103 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2023
18147461 ZERO-KNOWLEDGE ENCRYPTION ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ARANI, TAGHI T 2438 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18001174 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING HIGHLIGHT SEGMENTS MILLER, RONDE LEE 2663 §102 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2022
17652326 COLLECTION FOLDER FOR COLLECTING FILE SUBMISSIONS ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2022
17523409 TRANSITION TO AN ORGANIZATION DIRECTORY ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2154 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2021

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