Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
18 pending office actions • 7 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. is actively managing 18 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio demonstrates a high level of examiner diversity, as the 18 actions are handled by 17 distinct examiners. These matters are further distributed across 7 distinct art units, reflecting a complex prosecution landscape that spans multiple specialized groups within the patent office.
YOGESHKUMAR G PATEL is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This is the only instance in the portfolio where an examiner is responsible for more than one pending matter, as the remaining actions are split among the other 17 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the company's legal strategy must account for a wide variety of individual examiner behaviors and interpretations.
The involvement of 7 distinct art units indicates that the Communications technology area for this portfolio is multifaceted. Each art unit may have different internal guidelines or historical allowance rates. Managing 18 pending office actions across such a fragmented examiner and art unit base requires a highly adaptable approach to patent prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 11 (61%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (22%) |
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, YOGESHKUMAR G | 2 | 83.5% | +3.2% |
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.5% | +22.1% |
| KIM, PAUL | 1 | 73.0% | +19.9% |
| RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 1 | 68.0% | +50.0% |
| SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | 1 | 64.6% | +47.5% |
| ANWAH, OLISA | 1 | 89.0% | +4.8% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.2% |
| YUN, EUGENE | 1 | 85.4% | +4.4% |
| PAUL, DISLER | 1 | 82.2% | +8.6% |
| AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | 1 | 80.4% | +18.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989173 | ACOUSTIC RENDERING WITHIN A LISTENING SPACE | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
| 18959882 | MICROPHONE TRACKING BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | — |
| 18949033 | SCALABLE MULTIUSER AUDIO SYSTEM AND METHOD | YUN, EUGENE | — |
| 18910304 | Determination and Compensation of Radio Frequency Signal Attenuation | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | — |
| 18613981 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084389 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| 19051466 | INTERFERENCE TUBE FOR A MICROPHONE | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — |
| 19016560 | FLEXIBLE ROOM ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ANWAH, OLISA | — |
| 18947274 | INTELLIGENT AUDIO SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE SENSOR MODALITIES | PAUL, DISLER | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084389 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| 19054149 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL | KIM, PAUL | — |
| 19051466 | INTERFERENCE TUBE FOR A MICROPHONE | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — |
| 19047204 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING MULTI-MODAL AUDIO SOURCE CHANNALIZATION SYSTEM | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | — |
| 18910304 | Determination and Compensation of Radio Frequency Signal Attenuation | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2695 | 2 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084389 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MOONEY, JAMES K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19054149 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL | KIM, PAUL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19051466 | INTERFERENCE TUBE FOR A MICROPHONE | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19047204 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING MULTI-MODAL AUDIO SOURCE CHANNALIZATION SYSTEM | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19016560 | FLEXIBLE ROOM ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ANWAH, OLISA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18989173 | ACOUSTIC RENDERING WITHIN A LISTENING SPACE | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18959882 | MICROPHONE TRACKING BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18949033 | SCALABLE MULTIUSER AUDIO SYSTEM AND METHOD | YUN, EUGENE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18947274 | INTELLIGENT AUDIO SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE SENSOR MODALITIES | PAUL, DISLER | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18910304 | Determination and Compensation of Radio Frequency Signal Attenuation | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | 2695 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18899701 | VIRTUAL UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS INTERFACE | POPE, KHARYE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18817608 | FRONT-END AUDIO PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18763719 | AUDIO ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN IMMERSIVE AUDIO EXPERIENCE | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18732090 | VIDEOCONFERENCING DEVICE PROVIDING VIEWING ANGLE DIVERSITY | ZENATI, AMAL S | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18613981 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18140294 | Multi-Channel Microphone | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18160058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION CONVERGENCE | LEE, PING | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 17679604 | DEEP NEURAL NETWORK DENOISER MASK GENERATION SYSTEM FOR AUDIO PROCESSING | ISKENDER, ALVIN ALIK | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
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