Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
iBiquity Digital Corporation has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the applicant to manage separate sets of examiner preferences for each active filing.
The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting some technical overlap despite the number of examiners. ZHU, QIN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is the standard workload for all examiners in this portfolio. With the active cases funneling into 3 distinct art units, there is a slight concentration of technical review at the group level.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHU, QIN | 1 | 87.5% | +3.3% |
| CHAN, JASON | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| SHERIF, FATUMA G | 1 | 58.2% | +16.1% |
| MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 1 | 81.7% | +9.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536750 | METHOD OPERABLE IN A VEHICLE RADIO SYSTEM | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 23d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102999 | Ambiance Expansion System For A Vehicle | ZHU, QIN | — |
| 19102915 | Spatial Sound Image Correction In A Vehicle | CHAN, JASON | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18754646 | Digital Signal Alignment Tool for Single Frequency Network Broadcasts | SHERIF, FATUMA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102999 | Ambiance Expansion System For A Vehicle | ZHU, QIN | 2691 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19102915 | Spatial Sound Image Correction In A Vehicle | CHAN, JASON | 2619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18754646 | Digital Signal Alignment Tool for Single Frequency Network Broadcasts | SHERIF, FATUMA G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18536750 | METHOD OPERABLE IN A VEHICLE RADIO SYSTEM | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 2424 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialiBiquity Digital Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Qin Zhu has the most, with 1 of iBiquity Digital Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
