Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
19 pending office actions • 9 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 139 patents granted in the last 365 days
GoPro Inc. has 20 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio spans 17 examiners and 9 art units, combining meaningful examiner dispersion with repeated activity in several technical examination groups.
VIEAUX, GARY C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment provides a limited opportunity for cross-matter comparison, but most actions remain with other examiners. Counsel should coordinate shared communications and imaging concepts across the nine art units while adapting responses to each examiner’s treatment of claim scope and technical distinctions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (26%) |
| §102 only | 3 (16%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (47%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIEAUX, GARY C | 2 | 79.0% | +9.1% |
| RHODES, JR, LEON W | 2 | 82.4% | +11.6% |
| REISNER, NOAM S | 2 | 73.9% | -8.5% |
| LE, TUAN H | 1 | 74.7% | +26.1% |
| FULLER, RODNEY EVAN | 1 | 83.9% | +7.1% |
| BOYLAN, JAMES T | 1 | 63.3% | +10.8% |
| CUTLER, ALBERT H | 1 | 79.4% | +21.1% |
| CHEN, CHIA WEI A | 1 | 77.2% | +19.3% |
| DUDEK, JAMES A | 1 | 82.2% | +3.1% |
| HASSAN, MEHEDI NMN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19089496 | IMAGING SYSTEM FOR PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR | FULLER, RODNEY EVAN | — |
| 19071222 | REMOVABLE BATTERY DOOR ASSEMBLIES FOR IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES | RHODES, JR, LEON W | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18657264 | EXTERNAL POWER AND/OR DATA DELIVERY TO AN IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS | REISNER, NOAM S | 31d overdue |
| 18759992 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FRAME DENOISING | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 28d |
| 19189752 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS MODULE | LE, TUAN H | — |
| 19182394 | MODULAR CAMERA WITH INTERCHANGEABLE IMAGE HEAD AND SUB-SYSTEM BASES | VIEAUX, GARY C | — |
| 19041240 | ADJUSTABLE LENS ASSEMBLY | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — |
| 19035690 | ADJUSTABLE HELMET DISPLAY SYSTEM | DUDEK, JAMES A | — |
| 19012030 | CAMERA HOUSING | RHODES, JR, LEON W | — |
| 18917314 | OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS ARCHITECTURE | HASSAN, MEHEDI NMN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19189752 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS MODULE | LE, TUAN H | — |
| 19071222 | REMOVABLE BATTERY DOOR ASSEMBLIES FOR IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES | RHODES, JR, LEON W | — |
| 19060580 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC IMAGE STABILIZATION BASED ON A LENS POLYNOMIAL | BOYLAN, JAMES T | — |
| 19041240 | ADJUSTABLE LENS ASSEMBLY | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — |
| 19037536 | HEAT TRANSFER BETWEEN INTEGRATED SENSOR-LENS ASSEMBLIES IN AN IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE | CHEN, CHIA WEI A | — |
| 19012030 | CAMERA HOUSING | RHODES, JR, LEON W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 6 |
| 2638 | 3 |
| 2637 | 3 |
| 2486 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2699 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19240753 | Removable Lens Accessories For Image Capture Devices | VIEAUX, GARY C | 2638 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19189752 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS MODULE | LE, TUAN H | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19182394 | MODULAR CAMERA WITH INTERCHANGEABLE IMAGE HEAD AND SUB-SYSTEM BASES | VIEAUX, GARY C | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19089496 | IMAGING SYSTEM FOR PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR | FULLER, RODNEY EVAN | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19071222 | REMOVABLE BATTERY DOOR ASSEMBLIES FOR IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES | RHODES, JR, LEON W | 2852 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19060580 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC IMAGE STABILIZATION BASED ON A LENS POLYNOMIAL | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2486 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19041240 | ADJUSTABLE LENS ASSEMBLY | CUTLER, ALBERT H | 2637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19037536 | HEAT TRANSFER BETWEEN INTEGRATED SENSOR-LENS ASSEMBLIES IN AN IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE | CHEN, CHIA WEI A | 2637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19035690 | ADJUSTABLE HELMET DISPLAY SYSTEM | DUDEK, JAMES A | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19012030 | CAMERA HOUSING | RHODES, JR, LEON W | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18917314 | OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS ARCHITECTURE | HASSAN, MEHEDI NMN | 2637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18819194 | ANAMORPHIC LENS MODULE | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18795504 | WIND AVOIDANCE AUDIO OPTIMIZATION FOR VOICE | SOLAIMAN, FOUZIA HYE | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18785818 | ADAPTIVE ACQUISITION CONTROL WITH LIMITED ILLUMINATION MOTION BLUR REDUCTION | PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M | 2699 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18759992 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FRAME DENOISING | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 2486 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
| 18741280 | IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEMS INCLUDING REMOVABLE ACCESSORIES WITH HAPTIC COMPONENT(S) | CHANG, FANG-CHI | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18657264 | EXTERNAL POWER AND/OR DATA DELIVERY TO AN IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS | REISNER, NOAM S | 2852 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18606628 | MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR AN IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS | REISNER, NOAM S | 2852 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18218812 | BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENT | KRONE, TAYLOR HARRISON | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGoPro Inc. has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 16 examiners.
Gary C Vieaux has the most, with 2 of GoPro Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
