Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBERLY, VAN HONG | 2 | 75.2% | +15.6% |
| HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q | 1 | 67.9% | +11.4% |
| NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 82.7% | +13.3% |
| BITAR, NANCY | 1 | 82.6% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966360 | DYNAMIC CONTENT SERVING USING A MEDIA DEVICE | NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19265151 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF DEVICE MAPS USING MEDIA VIEWING DATA | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 19252068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING SEARCH INDEXES FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN IDENTIFYING MEDIA SEGMENTS | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 18889754 | EMBEDDING DATA IN VIDEO WITHOUT VISIBLE IMPAIRMENTS | BITAR, NANCY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19265151 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF DEVICE MAPS USING MEDIA VIEWING DATA | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 19252068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING SEARCH INDEXES FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN IDENTIFYING MEDIA SEGMENTS | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 18974328 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING VIDEO SEGMENTS AND DISPLAYING OPTION TO VIEW FROM AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE AND/OR ON AN ALTERNATIVE DEVICE | HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q | — |
| 18966360 | DYNAMIC CONTENT SERVING USING A MEDIA DEVICE | NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2166 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19265151 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF DEVICE MAPS USING MEDIA VIEWING DATA | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19252068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING SEARCH INDEXES FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN IDENTIFYING MEDIA SEGMENTS | OBERLY, VAN HONG | 2166 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 18974328 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING VIDEO SEGMENTS AND DISPLAYING OPTION TO VIEW FROM AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE AND/OR ON AN ALTERNATIVE DEVICE | HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q | 2425 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18966360 | DYNAMIC CONTENT SERVING USING A MEDIA DEVICE | NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R | 2424 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18889754 | EMBEDDING DATA IN VIDEO WITHOUT VISIBLE IMPAIRMENTS | BITAR, NANCY | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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