Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merlin Labs Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, producing a small portfolio with limited overlap in the examination assignments.
SHARMA, NEERAJ is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. A coordinated approach before that examiner may be useful, while the remaining matter requires review under its separate art-unit context.
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 | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2 | 84.8% | +11.8% |
| AMIN, BHAVESH V | 1 | 79.6% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969752 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
| 18952583 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416727 | ADVANCED FLIGHT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD | AMIN, BHAVESH V | 62d |
| 18969752 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
| 18952583 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 2 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969752 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2659 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18952583 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2659 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18416727 | ADVANCED FLIGHT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD | AMIN, BHAVESH V | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialMerlin Labs Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Neeraj Sharma has the most, with 2 of Merlin Labs Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
