Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sennheiser Electronic SE & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions distributed across the Communications technology area. Each of these actions is handled by a different distinct examiner, ensuring that prosecution strategies are not concentrated under a single official. This results in 3 distinct examiners for the portfolio.
The workload is spread across distinct art units, showing no overlap in examination groups for the current cases. TESHALE, AKELAW is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which matches the workload of every other examiner in this set. This decentralized structure requires the applicant to manage separate technical reviews for each active matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TESHALE, AKELAW | 1 | 82.1% | +16.0% |
| SHAH, ANTIM G | 1 | 74.3% | +38.6% |
| DANIEL JR, WILLIE J | 1 | 61.1% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050440 | WIRELESS AUDIO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041179 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571421 | Method and apparatus for wireless synchronization of mobile devices | DANIEL JR, WILLIE J | 38d overdue |
| 19050440 | WIRELESS AUDIO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
| 19041179 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| 2465 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050440 | WIRELESS AUDIO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | TESHALE, AKELAW | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19041179 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER | SHAH, ANTIM G | 2693 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18571421 | Method and apparatus for wireless synchronization of mobile devices | DANIEL JR, WILLIE J | 2465 | §102 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSennheiser Electronic SE & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Akelaw Teshale has the most, with 1 of Sennheiser Electronic SE & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
