Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nbcuniversal Media LLC

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

1
Hard (12%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only7 (88%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REAGAN, JAMES A 1 71.0% +20.2%
PARRA, OMAR S 1 74.0% +9.6%
SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 1 28.7% +40.9%
SAINT CYR, JEAN D 1 60.3% +8.4%
HENRY, MATTHEW D 1 30.2% +20.9%
NELSON, FREDA ANN 1 42.6% +5.6%
TELAN, MICHAEL R 1 42.5% +26.8%
NGUYEN, THUONG 1 68.2% +32.0%

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
18343297 PREDICTIVE SUSTAINABILITY ANALYTICS FOR SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENTS NELSON, FREDA ANN 1d overdue
18644737 DIGITAL FORECASTER SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 12d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17066279 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN TELECAST FORECASTS NGUYEN, THUONG 2d overdue
18644737 DIGITAL FORECASTER SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 12d
18338097 DYNAMIC IN-SCENE SECONDARY CONTENT INSERTION TELAN, MICHAEL R 23d
18990798 HOME ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT AND/OR ENHANCED TICKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD REAGAN, JAMES A 42d
18475947 DYNAMIC MODEL SELECTION FOR ACCURATE TIME SERIES FORECASTING HENRY, MATTHEW D 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3625 2
3697 1
2421 1
2425 1
3628 1
2426 1
2416 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18990798 HOME ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT AND/OR ENHANCED TICKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD REAGAN, JAMES A 3697 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18748929 GENRE-ADAPTIVE ANALYTIC EXPONENTIAL MODELING FOR ACCURATE TIME SERIES FORECASTING WITH MINIMAL DATA PARRA, OMAR S 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18644737 DIGITAL FORECASTER SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18526246 TIERED MANIFEST MANIPULATION AND PRE-RENDERING WORKFLOW SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2425 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18475947 DYNAMIC MODEL SELECTION FOR ACCURATE TIME SERIES FORECASTING HENRY, MATTHEW D 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18343297 PREDICTIVE SUSTAINABILITY ANALYTICS FOR SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENTS NELSON, FREDA ANN 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18338097 DYNAMIC IN-SCENE SECONDARY CONTENT INSERTION TELAN, MICHAEL R 2426 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jun 20, 2023
17066279 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN TELECAST FORECASTS NGUYEN, THUONG 2416 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 08, 2020

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