Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Goertek Inc.

Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

20 pending office actions • 16 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 88 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Goertek Inc. has 19 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio reaches 19 distinct examiners and 15 distinct art units, so every pending matter is assigned to a different examiner even though several matters share technical examination groups.

AZARI, SEPEHR is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger concentration in the supplied data, which points toward matter-specific prosecution planning rather than reliance on a single examiner history. Counsel can use common communications terminology and disclosure positions across the portfolio, while tailoring arguments to the individual art unit and examiner handling each application.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

9
Hard (45%)
11
Medium (55%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (15%)
§103 only9 (45%)
§102 only2 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
10
Communications
50% of docket
5
Semiconductors
25% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AZARI, SEPEHR 1 66.8% +7.8%
MACARTHUR, VICTOR L 1 66.4% +12.7%
CHOW, JEFFREY J 1 77.2% +15.6%
LUBIT, RYAN A 1 63.8% +37.8%
JOSHI, SUNITA 1 81.2% +6.0%
ROBINSON, RYAN C 1 78.6% +14.3%
PARBADIA, BALRAM T 1 74.7% +20.2%
GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A 1 76.1% +13.2%
SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN 1 81.5% +19.3%
LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL 1 66.7% +0.0%

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
18880930 SOUND PRODUCING UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE JOSHI, SUNITA —

Hard Cases (9)

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
18578871 BONE CONDUCTION-BASED EATING MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND MEDIUM ABDULLAH, AAISHA 18d overdue
18722035 IMAGE OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SYSTEM KUCAB, JAMIE R 29d
19158973 EXCITER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MACARTHUR, VICTOR L —
19113573 IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHOW, JEFFREY J —
18994889 DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MEDIUM LUBIT, RYAN A —
18880205 INTELLIGENT HEAD-MOUNTED DEVICE AND HOUSING THEREOF PARBADIA, BALRAM T —
18870885 DRIVE EXCITER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN —
18627599 CALIBRATION CONTROL METHOD FOR SPEAKER, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PARK, HYUN D —

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
19158973 EXCITER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MACARTHUR, VICTOR L —
19113573 IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHOW, JEFFREY J —
18994889 DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MEDIUM LUBIT, RYAN A —
18880704 SOUND PRODUCING UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ROBINSON, RYAN C —
18880205 INTELLIGENT HEAD-MOUNTED DEVICE AND HOUSING THEREOF PARBADIA, BALRAM T —
18870730 Drive Exciter and Electronic Device GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A —
18870885 DRIVE EXCITER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2694 3
2872 2
2834 2
2621 1
3618 1
2618 1
2626 1
2691 1
3699 1
2857 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19163078 INTERACTION CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND MEDIUM AZARI, SEPEHR 2621 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 08, 2025
19158973 EXCITER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MACARTHUR, VICTOR L 3618 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2025
19113573 IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHOW, JEFFREY J 2618 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2025
18994889 DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MEDIUM LUBIT, RYAN A 2626 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
18880930 SOUND PRODUCING UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE JOSHI, SUNITA 2691 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 03, 2025
18880704 SOUND PRODUCING UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ROBINSON, RYAN C 2694 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 02, 2025
18880205 INTELLIGENT HEAD-MOUNTED DEVICE AND HOUSING THEREOF PARBADIA, BALRAM T 2872 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18870730 Drive Exciter and Electronic Device GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A 2834 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18870885 DRIVE EXCITER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN 2834 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18839466 SOUND PRODUCTION MODULE AND TERMINAL DEVICE LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL 2694 §102 Final Rejection 50d Pending Aug 19, 2024
18722035 IMAGE OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SYSTEM KUCAB, JAMIE R 3699 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18627599 CALIBRATION CONTROL METHOD FOR SPEAKER, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PARK, HYUN D 2857 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 05, 2024
18694459 WRIST-WORN DEVICE AND AIR PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM THEREOF AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 2693 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 22, 2024
18580728 TOUCH DETECTION AND FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD BLANCHA, JONATHAN M 2623 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 19, 2024
18578871 BONE CONDUCTION-BASED EATING MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND MEDIUM ABDULLAH, AAISHA 3681 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18556366 WIRELESS EARPHONES AND PASS-THROUGH METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM THEREFOR KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 2694 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 20, 2023
18256444 BIOLOGICAL MONITORING ELECTRODE AND WEARABLE DEVICE MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2023
18253580 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 18, 2023
18027998 DIAPHRAGM AND SOUND GENERATING APPARATUS HUANG, CHENG YUAN 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023
17995134 OPTICAL SYSTEM, ASSEMBLING METHOD AND VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICE EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 30, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Goertek Inc. have?

Goertek Inc. has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 20 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Goertek Inc. applications?

Sepehr Azari has the most, with 1 of Goertek Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Goertek Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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