Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Recorded Books Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is handled by examiner PATEL, SHREYANS A. The portfolio's activity is restricted to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. PATEL, SHREYANS A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
This single office action is the only pending matter currently reported for the company. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is concentrated under a single official. This arrangement allows the company to focus its legal resources on a single point of contact within the Communications technology area.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHREYANS A | 1 | 88.4% | +7.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO CONTENT CREATION VIA A COMBINATION OF A TEXT-TO-SPEECH MODEL AND HUMAN NARRATION | PATEL, SHREYANS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18140051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO CONTENT CREATION VIA A COMBINATION OF A TEXT-TO-SPEECH MODEL AND HUMAN NARRATION | PATEL, SHREYANS A | 2659 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRecorded Books Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shreyans A Patel has the most, with 1 of Recorded Books Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
