Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Meta Platforms Inc.

22 pending office actions • 17 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 86 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (9%)
19
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (9%)
§103 only17 (77%)
§102 only2 (9%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
5
Information Tech
23% of docket
12
Communications
55% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
1
Business / Other
5% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRACY JR., EDWARD 2 77.8% +34.7%
BRITTINGHAM, NATHANIEL P 1 73.9% +16.8%
DAGNEW, SABA 1 37.6% +17.7%
MA, MICHELLE HAU 1 74.1% +41.2%
HE, JIALONG 1 81.5% +33.1%
CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 1 69.6% +28.4%
SHEN, SAMUEL 1 40.8% +24.5%
REPSHER III, JOHN T 1 58.2% +47.5%
ANSARI, AZAM A 1 47.6% +49.6%
MAHMUD, RANA HASSAN 1

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18788782 Bilingual Models for Live Translation for Assistant Systems HE, JIALONG 31d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18622744 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITALLY VERIFIED GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS ANSARI, AZAM A 74d overdue
18080569 SERVING DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE DEEP LEARNING (DL) MODELS IN SERVERLESS COMPUTING HAEFNER, KAITLYN RENEE 23d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18628155 BUNDLED MEDIA FILES CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 89d overdue
18622744 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITALLY VERIFIED GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS ANSARI, AZAM A 74d overdue
18788782 Bilingual Models for Live Translation for Assistant Systems HE, JIALONG 31d overdue
18626189 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING FORMAT CONTENT SUGGESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT INPUT TO ENTITIES REPSHER III, JOHN T 30d overdue
18742040 Span Pointer Networks for Non-Autoregressive Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing for Assistant Systems TRACY JR., EDWARD 17d overdue
18627256 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING CONTEXTUAL TEXT SUMMARIZATION OF RESOURCES IN SYSTEMS SHEN, SAMUEL 12d
18890540 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE POST OPPORTUNITIES DAGNEW, SABA 19d
18923609 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GAZE-DRIVEN ADAPTIVE CONTENT GENERATION BRITTINGHAM, NATHANIEL P 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3621 2
2659 2
2656 2
2644 2
2148 2
2629 1
2617 1
2421 1
2179 1
2143 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18923609 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GAZE-DRIVEN ADAPTIVE CONTENT GENERATION BRITTINGHAM, NATHANIEL P 2629 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 22, 2024
18890540 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE POST OPPORTUNITIES DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Sep 19, 2024
18882458 Text to Image Changer MA, MICHELLE HAU 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 11, 2024
18788782 Bilingual Models for Live Translation for Assistant Systems HE, JIALONG 2659 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 30, 2024
18742040 Span Pointer Networks for Non-Autoregressive Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing for Assistant Systems TRACY JR., EDWARD 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18628155 BUNDLED MEDIA FILES CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18627256 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING CONTEXTUAL TEXT SUMMARIZATION OF RESOURCES IN SYSTEMS SHEN, SAMUEL 2179 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 04, 2024
18626189 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING FORMAT CONTENT SUGGESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT INPUT TO ENTITIES REPSHER III, JOHN T 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18622744 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITALLY VERIFIED GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS ANSARI, AZAM A 3621 §101 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18428303 WIRELESS THERMAL MANAGEMENT MAHMUD, RANA HASSAN 2644 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18404825 SHARED THREE-DIMENSIONAL USER INTERFACE WITH PERSONAL SPACE ROSWELL, MICHAEL 3992 §103 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
18529827 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING ACTIONS BASED ON TEXT CAPTURED BY HEAD MOUNTED DEVICES HE, YINGCHUN 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18467117 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL CAMERAS FOR HARDWARE INPUTS GARCIA, GABRIEL I 2682 §102 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18459330 ARTIFICIAL REALITY DEVICES WITH LIGHT BLOCKING CAPABILITY AND PROJECTION OF VISUAL CONTENT OVER REGIONS OF BLOCKED LIGHT HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2023
18458708 Generating Realistic Avatars for Extended Reality LE, SARAH 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2023
18227174 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION THROUGH WIFI SCAN OPTIMIZATIONS PEREZ, JULIO R 2644 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18164936 TRANSPOSE A TENSOR WITH A SINGLE TRANSPOSE BUFFER KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18080569 SERVING DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE DEEP LEARNING (DL) MODELS IN SERVERLESS COMPUTING HAEFNER, KAITLYN RENEE 2148 §101 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18051392 WLAN on 60GHz Frequency Bands LOUIS-FILS, NICOLE M 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
17934898 Presenting Attention States Associated with Voice Commands for Assistant Systems TRACY JR., EDWARD 2656 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17899263 ATTENUATED PHASE SHIFT MASK FOR TALBOT LITHOGRAPHY ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J 1737 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2022
17889116 Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation on Real Data MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE 2659 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022

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