Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
iBiquity Digital Corporation manages a company patent portfolio focused on the Communications technology area. The portfolio is currently active with 6 pending office actions, indicating a steady level of prosecution activity. This volume of 6 pending office actions suggests that the company is consistently working to protect its innovations in the digital communications space.
The prosecution of these 6 actions is distributed among 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This 6 to 6 ratio between actions and examiners means that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of perspectives on the company's filings. The fact that these 6 actions are spread across 4 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is focused on communications, it spans several different technical sub-fields.
CHAN, JASON is identified as the busiest examiner for iBiquity Digital Corporation, with 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 6 total pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the 6 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that the company's success is not tied to any 1 person's review, but rather to the independent decisions of 6 different examiners across 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAN, JASON | 1 | 75.0% | -3.8% |
| ZHU, QIN | 1 | 87.4% | +3.4% |
| SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | 1 | 73.3% | +20.6% |
| MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 1 | 81.6% | +10.0% |
| WONG, LINDA | 1 | 85.1% | +15.6% |
| WICKRAMASURIYA, SAMEERA | 1 | 75.4% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18508207 | MEDIA RATINGS WATERMARK ENCODING | WONG, LINDA | 22d |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102915 | Spatial Sound Image Correction In A Vehicle | CHAN, JASON | — |
| 19102999 | Ambiance Expansion System For A Vehicle | ZHU, QIN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18508207 | MEDIA RATINGS WATERMARK ENCODING | WONG, LINDA | 22d |
| 18536750 | METHOD OPERABLE IN A VEHICLE RADIO SYSTEM | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 23d |
| 18745500 | Podcast And Radio Programming Recommendations Based On OTA Radio Broadcast Listening | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | — |
| 18030896 | Internet Of Things Transmission And Reception System | WICKRAMASURIYA, SAMEERA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102915 | Spatial Sound Image Correction In A Vehicle | CHAN, JASON | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19102999 | Ambiance Expansion System For A Vehicle | ZHU, QIN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18745500 | Podcast And Radio Programming Recommendations Based On OTA Radio Broadcast Listening | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | 2692 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18536750 | METHOD OPERABLE IN A VEHICLE RADIO SYSTEM | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 2424 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18508207 | MEDIA RATINGS WATERMARK ENCODING | WONG, LINDA | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18030896 | Internet Of Things Transmission And Reception System | WICKRAMASURIYA, SAMEERA | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
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