Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanas AI Inc. manages a company patent portfolio with 3 pending office actions. These matters are located within the Communications technology area. The portfolio's activity is highly centralized, involving only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner.
BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. This means that BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload at the office. The concentration of all 3 pending office actions under a single examiner within 1 distinct art unit suggests a very focused prosecution effort.
Practitioners should focus their strategy entirely on the preferences and past decisions of BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S. Because this single examiner handles all 3 pending office actions, their individual review style will dictate the outcome for the entire active portfolio. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units within the Communications sector allows for a consistent and unified approach to these pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 3 | 67.2% | +33.3% |
| SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 1 | 58.7% | +44.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILINGUAL SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION WITH SPEECH REFINEMENT USING COMBINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 60d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILINGUAL SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION WITH SPEECH REFINEMENT USING COMBINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 60d overdue |
| 18596031 | METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 9d overdue |
| 19397801 | METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | — |
| 18788269 | METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2658 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19397801 | METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 18788269 | METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18651312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILINGUAL SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION WITH SPEECH REFINEMENT USING COMBINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 2658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18596031 | METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
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