Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Meta Platforms Inc.

28 pending office actions • 21 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 86 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

12
Hard (43%)
15
Medium (54%)
1
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other6 (21%)
§103 only15 (54%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
4% of docket
8
Information Tech
29% of docket
10
Communications
36% of docket
1
Semiconductors
4% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
5
Business / Other
18% 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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRACY JR., EDWARD 2 78.4% +33.9%
SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 1 86.4% +20.6%
VARNDELL, ROSS E 1 84.7% +13.2%
THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L 1 77.4% +36.4%
BRITTINGHAM, NATHANIEL P 1 74.1% +16.3%
KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH 1 48.7% +12.0%
ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA 1 71.6% +12.9%
LE, HUNG D 1 90.1% +6.2%
DAGNEW, SABA 1 37.7% +17.6%
HE, JIALONG 1 81.4% +33.0%

Hard Cases (12)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17899263 ATTENUATED PHASE SHIFT MASK FOR TALBOT LITHOGRAPHY ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J 132d 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
18080569 SERVING DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE DEEP LEARNING (DL) MODELS IN SERVERLESS COMPUTING LAU, KAITLYN RENEE 23d overdue
18890540 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE POST OPPORTUNITIES DAGNEW, SABA 19d
18164936 TRANSPOSE A TENSOR WITH A SINGLE TRANSPOSE BUFFER KNIGHT, PAUL M 47d
19217431 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING TAILORED ONLINE CONTENT GENERATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM
18942011 STYLE TAILORING LATENT DIFFUSION MODELS FOR HUMAN EXPRESSION VARNDELL, ROSS E

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
18788782 Bilingual Models for Live Translation for Assistant Systems HE, JIALONG 31d overdue
18742040 Span Pointer Networks for Non-Autoregressive Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing for Assistant Systems TRACY JR., EDWARD 17d overdue
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
17934898 Presenting Attention States Associated with Voice Commands for Assistant Systems TRACY JR., EDWARD 27d
19217431 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING TAILORED ONLINE CONTENT GENERATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM
18942011 STYLE TAILORING LATENT DIFFUSION MODELS FOR HUMAN EXPRESSION VARNDELL, ROSS E
18940817 TOWARDS END-TO-END SPEECH-INPUT CONVERSATIONAL LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2659 2
2656 2
2148 2
2166 1
2629 1
3735 1
2161 1
3621 1
2611 1
2625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19217431 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING TAILORED ONLINE CONTENT GENERATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 2166 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2025
18942011 STYLE TAILORING LATENT DIFFUSION MODELS FOR HUMAN EXPRESSION VARNDELL, ROSS E §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2024
18940817 TOWARDS END-TO-END SPEECH-INPUT CONVERSATIONAL LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
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
18914655 PRODUCT PACKAGING KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH 3735 §102§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 14, 2024
18900209 LIQUID CRYSTAL BASED MODE FIELD DIAMETER OPTIMIZATION ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18892786 Resolving a Co-Reference Based on a Multimodal User Input for Assistant Systems LE, HUNG D 2161 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 23, 2024
18890540 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE POST OPPORTUNITIES DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §101§103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Sep 19, 2024
18788782 Bilingual Models for Live Translation for Assistant Systems HE, JIALONG 2659 §101§102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 30, 2024
18766195 CHIP-TO-CHIP INTERCONNECT WITH A LAYERED COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE SEYE, ABDOU K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 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
18674193 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS IN VIRTUAL REALITY MEETINGS MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM 2611 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 24, 2024
18627366 HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT VIEWFINDER TZENG, FRED 2625 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 04, 2024
18627256 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING CONTEXTUAL TEXT SUMMARIZATION OF RESOURCES IN SYSTEMS SHEN, SAMUEL 2179 §103 Final Rejection 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 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18428303 WIRELESS THERMAL MANAGEMENT MAHMUD, RANA HASSAN 2644 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18404825 SHARED THREE-DIMENSIONAL USER INTERFACE WITH PERSONAL SPACE ROSWELL, MICHAEL 3992 §103Other 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 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18471568 BILINGUAL MULTITASK MACHINE TRANSLATION MODEL FOR LIVE TRANSLATION ON ARTIFICIAL REALITY DEVICES PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 2655 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 21, 2023
18467914 EFFICIENT INTERFRAME MODE SEARCH FOR AV1 ENCODING HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 15, 2023
18310127 DIGITAL SOCIAL NETWORKING FRAMEWORK TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY 3626 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 01, 2023
18164936 TRANSPOSE A TENSOR WITH A SINGLE TRANSPOSE BUFFER KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §103§112 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18080569 SERVING DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE DEEP LEARNING (DL) MODELS IN SERVERLESS COMPUTING LAU, KAITLYN RENEE 2148 §101§103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18059641 Event-Based Reasoning for Assistant Systems JIANG, HAIMEI 2142 §101§102Other Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2022
18055591 Adaptively Muting Audio Transmission of User Speech for Assistant Systems SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K 2659 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2022
17934898 Presenting Attention States Associated with Voice Commands for Assistant Systems TRACY JR., EDWARD 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17899263 ATTENUATED PHASE SHIFT MASK FOR TALBOT LITHOGRAPHY ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J 1737 §102§103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2022
17719413 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) EYEGLASSES MODEL TRA, TUYEN Q 2872 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 13, 2022

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