Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Dropbox Inc.

35 pending office actions • 22 art units • 31 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 84 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

35
Total Pending OAs
23
Non-Final OAs
12
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
3
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

21
Hard (60%)
14
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only9 (26%)
§101 + other7 (20%)
§103 only12 (34%)
§102 only2 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
20
Information Tech
57% of docket
4
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
4
Business / Other
11% 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
HOANG, HAU HAI 2 78.2% +13.8%
MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 2 29.8% +34.9%
KELLS, ASHER 2 79.0% +11.0%
GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 2 23.0% +32.9%
MORRIS, JOHN J 1 61.0% +19.9%
BIBBEE, JARED M 1 80.3% +13.7%
HARPER, ELIYAH STONE 1 73.5% +11.4%
NGUYEN, THUY N 1 57.4% +24.9%
ZHAO, DAQUAN 1 77.2% +14.5%
WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J 1 38.9% +41.6%

Hard Cases (23)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18164373 GENERATING USER-SPECIFIC SYNTHETIC CONTENT UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING WITH USER CREATED CONTENT ITEMS SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 19d overdue
18415036 GENERATING AND VISUALIZING COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVITY SCORES FOR VIDEO CALLS BULLINGTON, ROBERT P 15d overdue
17523409 TRANSITION TO AN ORGANIZATION DIRECTORY TO, BAOQUOC N 2d 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
18478066 GENERATING AND MAINTAINING COMPOSITE ACTIONS UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS SULTANA, NADIRA 15d
18332959 CUSTOMIZABLE AND GRANULAR ANALYTICS TOOL FOR SHARED CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON CUSTOM LINKS SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 20d

Interview Candidates (14)

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
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
18395099 INTELLIGENT DOCUMENT CREATION AND REVIEW GENERATED BY A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL KELLS, ASHER 84d
19246296 EMBEDDED FOLDER VIEWS MORRIS, JOHN J
19236765 ORGANIZING MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS UTILIZING DETECTED SCENE TYPES BIBBEE, JARED M
19215668 DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH FRAMEWORK FOR EXECUTING SEARCH FUNCTION OPERATIONS HARPER, ELIYAH STONE
19205533 WITHIN-CONTEXT SEMANTIC RELEVANCE INFERENCE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATED OUTPUT HOANG, HAU HAI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3625 4
2161 3
2154 3
2174 2
2171 2
2166 1
2484 1
2139 1
2175 1
2163 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19246296 EMBEDDED FOLDER VIEWS MORRIS, JOHN J §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2025
19236765 ORGANIZING MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS UTILIZING DETECTED SCENE TYPES BIBBEE, JARED M 2161 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2025
19215668 DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH FRAMEWORK FOR EXECUTING SEARCH FUNCTION OPERATIONS HARPER, ELIYAH STONE 2166 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2025
19205533 WITHIN-CONTEXT SEMANTIC RELEVANCE INFERENCE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATED OUTPUT HOANG, HAU HAI 2154 §101Other Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2025
19205503 CREATING AN EFFECTIVE PRODUCT USING AN ATTRIBUTE SOLVER NGUYEN, THUY N §101Other Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2025
19195494 AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZING CONTENT COLLECTIONS WITH SMART CONTENT SYNTHESIS AND DYNAMIC FACETS MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA 2174 §103 Non-Final OA 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 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Apr 25, 2025
19072233 MODIFYING AND COLLABORATING WITH DIGITAL VIDEOS THROUGH INTERACTIONS WITH VIDEO TRANSCRIPTS ZHAO, DAQUAN 2484 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2025
19055196 UNIFIED PRESENTATION OF CROSS-PLATFORM CONTENT TO A USER VISITING A PLATFORM WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 17, 2025
18988609 TECHNIQUES FOR CAPTURING AND DISPLAYING PARTIAL MOTION IN VIRTUAL OR AUGMENTED REALITY SCENES LIU, GORDON G §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2024
18946046 DYNAMIC, ADAPTIVE OVER-PROVISIONING ALSIP, MICHAEL 2139 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 13, 2024
18886697 UNIFIED DATA STRUCTURES FOR SOURCE-SPECIFIC DATA STRUCTURES ORIGINATING FROM THIRD-PARTY SOURCES DAYE, CHELCIE L 2161 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 16, 2024
18825060 PRESENTING PROJECT DATA MANAGED BY A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 05, 2024
18811909 BACKUP FEATURE PROVIDED BY BIDIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PYO, MONICA M 2161 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2024
18769868 GENERATING AND SUMMARIZING CONTENT BLOCKS WITHIN A VIRTUAL SPACE INTERFACE KELLS, ASHER 2171 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 11, 2024
18752435 LIVE WRITES TO ERASURE CODED VOLUMES WITHOUT PRIOR REPLICATION JUNG, ANDREW J 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 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
18667953 TIMESTAMP-BASED APPROACH TO DETECTING STALE VALUES IN A CACHE KHAKHAR, NIRAV K 2163 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2024
18602881 SEGMENTING DIGITAL VIDEOS UTILIZING TRANSCRIPT CHAPTERIZATION AND VISUAL BREAKS KOROMA, SORIE IBRAHIM 2662 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 12, 2024
18431297 DOCUMENT DIFFERENCES ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION NAZAR, AHAMED I 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Feb 02, 2024
18425777 MEETING TRANSCRIPTION USING CUSTOM LEXICONS BASED ON DOCUMENT HISTORY SHEN, SAMUEL 2179 §103§112 Final Rejection 53d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18415036 GENERATING AND VISUALIZING COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVITY SCORES FOR VIDEO CALLS BULLINGTON, ROBERT P 3715 §101 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jan 17, 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
18516359 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SCHEDULES AND CALENDARS GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2023
18502830 GENERATING A PREVIEW TILE FOR A CONTENT ITEM IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R 2151 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 06, 2023
18482715 CUSTOM INTERPRETER FOR EXECUTING COMPUTER CODE GENERATED BY A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL MITCHELL, JASON D 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18478061 GENERATING AND MAINTAINING COMPOSITE ACTIONS UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE 2129 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2023
18478066 GENERATING AND MAINTAINING COMPOSITE ACTIONS UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS SULTANA, NADIRA 2653 §101§103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18477008 MANAGING PROJECT TASKS USING CONTENT ITEMS OBAID, HAMZEH M 3624 §101 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18332959 CUSTOMIZABLE AND GRANULAR ANALYTICS TOOL FOR SHARED CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON CUSTOM LINKS SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jun 12, 2023
18192943 ONE-WAY COLLABORATIVE CONTENT ITEM LOCKING SYSTEM HUSSEIN, ALAA WADIE 3626 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 30, 2023
18164373 GENERATING USER-SPECIFIC SYNTHETIC CONTENT UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING WITH USER CREATED CONTENT ITEMS SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §101§103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18001174 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING HIGHLIGHT SEGMENTS MILLER, RONDE LEE 2663 §102 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2022
17838098 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SCHEDULES AND CALENDARS GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §101 Final Rejection Pending Jun 10, 2022
17523409 TRANSITION TO AN ORGANIZATION DIRECTORY TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2021

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