Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Openai Opco LLC faces 14 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 13 distinct examiners, showing that the workload is almost entirely decentralized. This distribution requires a prosecution strategy that can accommodate many different individual perspectives. The near-total alignment between the count of examiners and actions suggests that very few examiners are handling more than a solitary case for the company.
The most notable feature of this portfolio is the presence of 13 distinct art units for only 14 actions. This indicates an exceptionally high level of technological variety, requiring specialized expertise across many different examination groups. Augustine, Nicholas is the busiest examiner but holds only 2 pending actions. With 13 distinct art units involved, practitioners should expect little overlap in examiner feedback or prior art across these pending matters. The strategy must remain highly adaptable to the diverse procedural and technical requirements of the various art units.
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 | 5 (38%) |
| §103 only | 3 (23%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | 2 | 72.8% | +27.9% |
| VARNDELL, ROSS E | 1 | 84.7% | +13.2% |
| CRADDOCK, ROBERT J | 1 | 83.9% | +14.4% |
| LIU, ZHENGXI | 1 | 64.1% | +41.0% |
| HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | 1 | 93.4% | +1.2% |
| ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | 1 | 86.5% | +2.4% |
| MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | 1 | 27.6% | +47.6% |
| REPSHER III, JOHN T | 1 | 58.7% | +47.9% |
| MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SALOMON, PHENUEL S | 1 | 72.7% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033306 | INTEGRATED IN-MEMORY COMPUTE CONFIGURED FOR EFFICIENT DATA INPUT AND RESHAPING | HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | — |
| 18903427 | NON-ADJACENT CONNECTION OF HIGH-BANDWIDTH MEMORY CHIPLETS, I/O CHIPLETS, AND COMPUTE CHIPLETS THROUGH EMBEDDED LOGIC BRIDGES | ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054322 | MODEL IMAGE GENERATION USING RECAPTIONED IMAGES | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 19042510 | STORYBOARD GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO A VISUAL MEDIA GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | CRADDOCK, ROBERT J | — |
| 19042594 | PROMPT EDITOR FOR USE WITH A VISUAL MEDIA GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | LIU, ZHENGXI | — |
| 18896263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED AI MODELS | MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | — |
| 18790499 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | — |
| 18790451 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | REPSHER III, JOHN T | — |
| 18767894 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CODE USING LANGUAGE MODELS TRAINED ON COMPUTER CODE | MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM | — |
| 18732157 | SELECTIVE LEARNING OF INFORMATION FOR THE GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED RESPONSES BY A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | SALOMON, PHENUEL S | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054322 | MODEL IMAGE GENERATION USING RECAPTIONED IMAGES | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 19042510 | STORYBOARD GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO A VISUAL MEDIA GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | CRADDOCK, ROBERT J | — |
| 19042594 | PROMPT EDITOR FOR USE WITH A VISUAL MEDIA GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | LIU, ZHENGXI | — |
| 18896263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED AI MODELS | MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | — |
| 18790499 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | — |
| 18790451 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | REPSHER III, JOHN T | — |
| 18773784 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | — |
| 18732157 | SELECTIVE LEARNING OF INFORMATION FOR THE GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED RESPONSES BY A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | SALOMON, PHENUEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2146 | 2 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2618 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2827 | 1 |
| 2824 | 1 |
| 2141 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| 2143 | 1 |
| 2179 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19054322 | MODEL IMAGE GENERATION USING RECAPTIONED IMAGES | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 2674 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19042510 | STORYBOARD GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO A VISUAL MEDIA GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | CRADDOCK, ROBERT J | 2618 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19042594 | PROMPT EDITOR FOR USE WITH A VISUAL MEDIA GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | LIU, ZHENGXI | 2611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19033306 | INTEGRATED IN-MEMORY COMPUTE CONFIGURED FOR EFFICIENT DATA INPUT AND RESHAPING | HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | 2827 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18903427 | NON-ADJACENT CONNECTION OF HIGH-BANDWIDTH MEMORY CHIPLETS, I/O CHIPLETS, AND COMPUTE CHIPLETS THROUGH EMBEDDED LOGIC BRIDGES | ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18896263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED AI MODELS | MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | 2141 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18790499 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | 2178 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18790451 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | REPSHER III, JOHN T | 2143 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18773784 | OVERLAY APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTERFACING WITH A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | 2179 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18767894 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CODE USING LANGUAGE MODELS TRAINED ON COMPUTER CODE | MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM | 2193 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18732157 | SELECTIVE LEARNING OF INFORMATION FOR THE GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED RESPONSES BY A GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE | SALOMON, PHENUEL S | 2146 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18616068 | TRAINING MODULATOR/SELECTOR HARDWARE LOGIC FOR MACHINE LEARNING DEVICES | MISIR, DAYWAYSHWAR D | 2127 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18416773 | GRADIENT COMPUTATION IN HYBRID DIGITALLY TIED ANALOG BLOCKS WITH ARBITRARY CONNECTIVITY BY EQUILIBRIUM PROPAGATION | KHAN, SHAHID K | 2146 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOpenai Opco LLC has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 12 examiners.
Nicholas Augustine has the most, with 2 of Openai Opco LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
