Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sonos Experience Limited has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, with TRUONG, THONG P serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution means that each of the company's pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of examiner perspectives within the portfolio.
The 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This means that each of the company's current matters in Networking & Security is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized group. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's applications touch on at least 2 different technical sub-specialties within the broader Networking & Security field.
With 2 pending office actions being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, the company must adapt to 2 different individual examination styles. The spread across 2 distinct art units further diversifies the prosecution environment, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific standards of 2 different technical divisions. This combination of examiner and art unit diversity within the Networking & Security area defines the company's current prosecution landscape.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUONG, THONG P | 1 | 82.1% | +15.5% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18144589 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRIGGERING EVENTS | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 12d |
| 18936491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING A DEVICE | TRUONG, THONG P | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18936491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING A DEVICE | TRUONG, THONG P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2433 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18936491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING A DEVICE | TRUONG, THONG P | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18144589 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRIGGERING EVENTS | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSonos Experience Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Thong P Truong has the most, with 1 of Sonos Experience Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
