Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Roku Inc.

40 pending office actions • 32 art units • 39 examiners • 0 of 40 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 118 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

40
Total Pending OAs
24
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 39 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

19
Overdue
2
Due this week
10
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 39 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (19)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (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.

3
Hard (8%)
32
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (2%)
4
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (8%)
§103 only28 (70%)
§102 only4 (10%)
§112 only1 (2%)
No statute on record4 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
22
Information Tech
55% of docket
11
Communications
28% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
18% 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.

400 h
Manual time on pending OAs
80 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
140 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2 83.0% +13.4%
KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 1 56.0% +27.8%
CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 1 69.6% +28.4%
JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 1 55.4% +22.2%
ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 1 58.2% +38.2%
VU, NGOC K 1 71.5% +13.0%
PANDEY, KESHAB R 1 87.7% +8.0%
GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 1 65.3% +33.5%
BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 1 84.4% +5.1%
GIRMA, FEKADESELASS 1 76.8% +17.7%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18829979 CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 44d overdue
18947788 HDMI CUSTOMIZED AD INSERTION NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 34d
18816484 Dynamic Configuration of an IoT Control Application to Support New Controlled Device Type BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 34d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18218786 INCREMENTAL REACH PLANNER VAN BRAMER, JOHN W 121d overdue
18787063 DYNAMIC AUTOMATION OF SECURITY SYSTEM USING MACHINE LEARNING GIRMA, FEKADESELASS 5d
18760881 CONTENT PRESENTATION USING AN EXPLOITATION-EXPLORATION PARADIGM ELCHANTI, TAREK 46d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18829979 CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 44d overdue
18891725 AD-HOC LIGHTWEIGHT mPOS REMOTE CONTROL GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 30d overdue
18988182 RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM WITH REDUCED BIAS BASED ON A VIEW HISTORY KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 16d overdue
18958959 ADAPTIVE AUDIO BITRATE SELECTION JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 9d overdue
18970054 Controlling Media-Content Presentation Based on Movement of Media-Player Device from Home Location to Visited Location CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 3d overdue
18907650 NON-TELEVISION EXPERIENCE TRIGGERS VU, NGOC K 3d overdue
18787063 DYNAMIC AUTOMATION OF SECURITY SYSTEM USING MACHINE LEARNING GIRMA, FEKADESELASS 5d
18925580 DYNAMIC SPLASH SCREEN DURING AN APPLICATION LAUNCH SEQUENCE FOR MEDIA STREAMING DEVICES ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 23d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2421 4
2424 3
2425 3
3622 2
2400 1
2426 1
2176 1
3627 1
2457 1
2689 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18988182 RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM WITH REDUCED BIAS BASED ON A VIEW HISTORY KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 2421 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2024
18970054 Controlling Media-Content Presentation Based on Movement of Media-Player Device from Home Location to Visited Location CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2024
18958959 ADAPTIVE AUDIO BITRATE SELECTION JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 2400 Other Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 25, 2024
18947788 HDMI CUSTOMIZED AD INSERTION NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 §112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Nov 14, 2024
18925580 DYNAMIC SPLASH SCREEN DURING AN APPLICATION LAUNCH SEQUENCE FOR MEDIA STREAMING DEVICES ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 2426 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18907650 NON-TELEVISION EXPERIENCE TRIGGERS VU, NGOC K 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2024
18896494 DYNAMIC BATTERY BACK-UP FOR SET-TOP-BOXES PANDEY, KESHAB R 2176 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 25, 2024
18891725 AD-HOC LIGHTWEIGHT mPOS REMOTE CONTROL GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18829979 CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Sep 10, 2024
18816484 Dynamic Configuration of an IoT Control Application to Support New Controlled Device Type BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 2457 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 27, 2024
18787063 DYNAMIC AUTOMATION OF SECURITY SYSTEM USING MACHINE LEARNING GIRMA, FEKADESELASS 2689 §101 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18773156 MODIFYING GRAPHICS RENDERING BY TRANSCODING A SERIALIZED COMMAND STREAM CRAWFORD, JACINTA M 2617 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18763571 Camera Assembly with Audio-Based Verification Feature CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J 2425 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18760881 CONTENT PRESENTATION USING AN EXPLOITATION-EXPLORATION PARADIGM ELCHANTI, TAREK 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jul 01, 2024
18732194 Video-Content System with Narrative-Based Video Content Generation Feature WU, YANNA 2615 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jun 03, 2024
18732183 Computing System with Personalized Educational Content Generation Feature BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18680112 DATA EXTRACTION AND ENHANCEMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18678283 DIALOGUE STATE TRACKING FOR VOICE ASSISTANTS SHARMA, NEERAJ 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18675543 USER ACCESS CONTROL ON A NEED-BY-NEED BASIS SHAW, PETER C 2493 §102 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending May 28, 2024
18659542 CONTENT ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18628139 DEVICE DISCOVERY ON A LOCAL NETWORK SAM, PHIRIN 2476 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18611562 PERSONALIZATION OF USER INTERFACE TEMPLATES BELOUSOV, ANDREY 2172 §102 Final Rejection Pending Mar 20, 2024
18600895 Content System with Aspect Ratio-Related Supplemental Video Content Feature PARRA, OMAR S 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18438946 GENERATING AND PROVIDING VISUAL CONTENT ITEMS FOR DISPLAY CHEN, YU 2613 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18415337 CONTENT ITEM TRANSLATION AND SEARCH MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jan 17, 2024
18398616 INTERNET OF THINGS CAMERA-BASED ITEM SEARCH GART, MATTHEW S 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2023
18529753 Media System with Selective Message Output Feature CHOU, ALAN S 2451 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18505398 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION IN MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS BARLOW, KATHERINE A 3689 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18499931 MEDIA DEVICE WITH PICTURE QUALITY ENHANCEMENT FEATURE RECEK, JASON D 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 01, 2023
18496459 Local Area Network System with Machine Learning-Based Task Offload Feature ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18374463 MULTI-ALERT-LEVEL MONITORING AND ALERTING FOR PREMISES USING INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICES TUN, NAY L 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18468386 CUSTOMIZED AUDIO FILTERING OF CONTENT CHIN, VIVIAN C 2695 §103 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18239605 INTERACTIVE SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT PLATFORM CHOKSHI, PINKAL R 2425 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Aug 29, 2023
18455758 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL SELECTION FOR CAMERA SYSTEMS CAI, PHUONG HAU 2673 §102 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18234979 LOCATING AND IDENTIFYING REMOTE CONTROLS LEE, MICHAEL 2422 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18223891 PROVIDING ENERGY-EFFICIENT FEATURES USING HUMAN PRESENCE DETECTION FLYNN, RANDY A 2424 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18220624 MANAGING LOW FREQUENCIES OF AN OUTPUT SIGNAL MOHAMMED, ASSAD 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18218786 INCREMENTAL REACH PLANNER VAN BRAMER, JOHN W 3622 §101 Final Rejection 121d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2023
18079204 PLACING ORDERS FOR A SUBJECT INCLUDED IN A MULTIMEDIA SEGMENT GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA 3688 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Dec 12, 2022
17932444 Distributed Maintenance of Operational Data Among IoT Devices, with Soft-Wiring or Other Configuration ADHAMI, MOHAMMAD SAJID 2471 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Sep 15, 2022

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