Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
91 pending office actions • 63 art units • 78 examiners • 0 of 91 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 321 patents granted in the last 365 days
HP Inc. has 91 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 78 distinct examiners and 63 distinct art units, indicating broad allocation across both examiner personnel and technical units.
VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO is the busiest identified examiner, with 5 pending matters. The distribution supports a portfolio process built around consistent disclosure and claim guidance rather than reliance on a single examiner relationship. Focused review of the identified examiner’s matters may still reveal useful recurring prosecution issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 29 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. 29 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 9 (10%) |
| §103 only | 39 (43%) |
| §102 only | 7 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 29 (32%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 5 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 4 | 67.6% | +52.2% |
| PATEL, SHIVANG I | 2 | 74.8% | +16.7% |
| PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | 2 | 61.5% | +21.8% |
| JONES, CARISSA ANNE | 2 | 72.5% | +29.3% |
| ZONG, HELEN | 2 | 79.3% | +8.0% |
| EVANS, BOONE ALEXANDER | 2 | 66.3% | +23.1% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 2 | 66.7% | +68.3% |
| SHAH, SUJIT | 1 | 66.6% | +11.6% |
| HALEY, JOSEPH R | 1 | 79.1% | +7.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641634 | KEYWORD DETECTIONS BASED ON EVENTS GENERATED FROM AUDIO SIGNALS | SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN | 125d overdue |
| 17793666 | MULTIPLE-TASK NEURAL NETWORKS | KIM, HARRISON CHAN YOUNG | 59d overdue |
| 18847063 | FIRMWARE CONTROLLED SECRETS | TRAN, ELLEN C | 44d overdue |
| 18616150 | MULTIPLE CIRCUITS COUPLED TO AN INTERFACE | LEBRON, JANNELLE M | 26d overdue |
| 18032710 | CELL LYSIS WITH MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND A RESISTOR | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 12d |
| 18564444 | AUTHENTICATION | TRUVAN, LEYNNA THANH | 14d |
| 17604780 | AUDIO SESSION CLASSIFICATION | RIFKIN, BEN M | 22d |
| 18851838 | LOADS TO OVERCLOCK CPUS | FATIMA, AYMAN | 29d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494670 | USING INCLUSION ZONES IN VIDEOCONFERENCING | JONES, CARISSA ANNE | 5d |
| 18682009 | SENDING SECURITY DOCUMENT ACCORDING TO SECURITY LEVEL OF MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS | PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | 84d |
| 19484328 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF DISPLAY PANEL SETTINGS | SHAH, SUJIT | — |
| 19025892 | WEARABLE MULTIMEDIA DEVICE AND CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM WITH LASER PROJECTION SYSTEM | PATEL, SHIVANG I | — |
| 19025942 | Wearable Multimedia Device and Cloud Computing Platform with Application Ecosystem | PATEL, SHIVANG I | — |
| 18994231 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH IN-LINE SCANNER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | — |
| 18850927 | AUDIENCE CONFIGURATIONS OF AUDIOVISUAL SIGNALS | JONES, CARISSA ANNE | — |
| 18703540 | ELECTROGRAPHIC TONERS | EVANS, BOONE ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 8 |
| 1798 | 8 |
| 2624 | 2 |
| 2621 | 2 |
| 2658 | 2 |
| 2615 | 2 |
| 2852 | 2 |
| 2699 | 2 |
| 2691 | 2 |
| 2683 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19484328 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF DISPLAY PANEL SETTINGS | SHAH, SUJIT | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19370692 | GESTURE-BASED VIRTUAL INTERFACES | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19307875 | HYBRID STRUCTURE DISPLAYS | ABEBE, SOSINA | 2626 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19288960 | HAND-SPECIFIC LASER PROJECTED VIRTUAL INTERFACES AND OPERATIONS | BIBBEE, CHAYCE R | 2624 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19288973 | GENERATING, STORING, AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON A MEMORY METRIC | ALCON, FERNANDO | 2425 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19229381 | PRIMER APPARATUS | VAUGHAN, JASON L | 3726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19118279 | PRINTING FLUID DELIVERY DEVICES | HUFFMAN, JULIAN D | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19087910 | MEDIA LOADING DEVICES | KIM, SANG K | 3654 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19048836 | INTERCHANGEABLE LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR CONTEXT COMPUTING DEVICES | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 2658 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19025892 | WEARABLE MULTIMEDIA DEVICE AND CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM WITH LASER PROJECTION SYSTEM | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 2615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025942 | Wearable Multimedia Device and Cloud Computing Platform with Application Ecosystem | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 2615 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18994721 | PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SLEEVE SUPPORTS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994962 | USAGE CONTROL FOR CONSUMABLES OF A PRINT APPARATUS | VO, ANH T N | 2853 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994231 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH IN-LINE SCANNER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | 2699 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18994199 | ADVANCING MEDIA TRAILING EDGES | SHAH, MANISH S | 2853 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18857546 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH OVERWRITING OF DATA FROM PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM | ELEY, JESSICA L | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18913567 | IMAGE PROCESSING | CHU, DAVID H | 2616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18854924 | STATEFUL SIGNATURES | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | 2436 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18854286 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC INK COMPOSITIONS | SEILER, GRANT STEVEN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18851838 | LOADS TO OVERCLOCK CPUS | FATIMA, AYMAN | 2176 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18850927 | AUDIENCE CONFIGURATIONS OF AUDIOVISUAL SIGNALS | JONES, CARISSA ANNE | 2691 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18847063 | FIRMWARE CONTROLLED SECRETS | TRAN, ELLEN C | 2433 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18845711 | INTERACTIVE REGIONS OF AUDIOVISUAL SIGNALS | BOCAR, DONNA V | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18845734 | USER SELECTED DISPLAY PANEL ADJUSTMENT | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18840055 | DISPLAY DEVICE SETTINGS SIZES | CHAE, KYU | 2426 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18832974 | PRINTING DEVICE CONSUMABLE ITEM HAVING OPTICALLY SCANNABLE AUTHORIZATION CODE AND ELECTRICALLY READABLE AUTHORIZATION CODE | ZONG, HELEN | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18728350 | COLOR FUSING AGENTS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTERS | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18703791 | STATUS DISPLAY OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING POWER INPUT THROUGH WIRED INTERFACE | GUYTON, PHILIP A | 2113 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18703540 | ELECTROGRAPHIC TONERS | EVANS, BOONE ALEXANDER | 1737 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18629569 | DUAL BLUETOOTH TRANSCEIVER COMMUNICATIONS | HENSON, JAMAAL R | 2411 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18616150 | MULTIPLE CIRCUITS COUPLED TO AN INTERFACE | LEBRON, JANNELLE M | 2853 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18611624 | PRINT LIQUID SUPPLY | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18690058 | TRANSMISSION OF SCANNED DOCUMENT TO DIFFERENT DESTINATIONS USING DIFFERENT SIZE FILES | AUGUSTIN, MARCELLUS | 2682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18687498 | NOTIFICATION DISPLAY WITH THUMBNAIL OF PRINT | ZONG, HELEN | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18684133 | MOLECULE DETECTIONS | SODERQUIST, ARLEN | 1797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18683948 | COMPONENTS DEVIATION DETERMINATIONS | GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL | 2147 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18682009 | SENDING SECURITY DOCUMENT ACCORDING TO SECURITY LEVEL OF MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS | PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | 2699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18294787 | Authentication by Habitual Eye Tracking Data | JONES, ANDREW B | 2667 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18292849 | POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION WELL INCLUDING A SIDE WALL WITH A FLUOROPOLYMER | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18292847 | TEST WELL HAVING A BOTTOM INCLUDING A SINGLE OPENING | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18292266 | POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION TEST WELL INCLUDING RESISTIVE SHEET | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18408538 | MESSAGE COMPOSITION INTERFACES FOR USE WITH WEARABLE MULTIMEDIA DEVICES | ULRICH, NICHOLAS S | 2179 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18577042 | Management of Display Device Connected to Docking Station | YIMER, GETENTE A | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18577216 | User Gestures to Initiate Voice Commands | SAINT CYR, LEONARD | 2658 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18577079 | Identification of Facial Expression of Head-Mountable Display Wearer | ATALA, JAMIE JO | 2486 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18576598 | EXTERNAL ADDITIVE FOR TONER | EVANS, BOONE ALEXANDER | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18576250 | FIRMWARE UPGRADE OF IMAGE FORMING DEVICE | WEI, ZENGPU | 2197 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18573905 | SURFACE MARKING ROBOTS AND FLOOR PLANS | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §102 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18571499 | Light Compensations for Virtual Backgrounds | SAJOUS, WESNER | 2612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18571690 | INTEGRATED CIRCUITS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND POWER SUPPLY NODES FOR WRITING AND READING MEMORY CELLS | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHP Inc. has 91 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 63 art units and 78 examiners.
Alejandro Valencia has the most, with 5 of HP Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.