Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
35 pending office actions • 21 art units • 31 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 209 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 35 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. 35 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 | 23 (66%) |
| §102 only | 4 (11%) |
| §112 only | 3 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (3%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCORD, PAUL C | 4 | 69.2% | +26.1% |
| WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2 | 79.8% | +29.1% |
| LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 1 | 82.4% | +14.1% |
| LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 1 | 88.4% | +5.4% |
| HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 1 | 65.3% | +18.3% |
| SCHWARTZ, DARREN B | 1 | 74.2% | +75.7% |
| DIAZ, SABRINA | 1 | 73.8% | +23.3% |
| HUBER, PAUL W | 1 | 85.0% | +9.8% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 74.8% | +16.4% |
| MEI, XU | 1 | 85.3% | +6.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19346865 | IMMERSIVE AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 3d overdue |
| 19022968 | STORING GENERATED DIGITAL OBJECTS ON A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 34d |
| 18791140 | CONTENT RULES ENGINES FOR AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES | MEI, XU | 48d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18464848 | Multiple Media Playback Protocols for Synchronized Media Playback in Grouped Zones | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 85d overdue |
| 18514882 | ASSOCIATING PLAYBACK DEVICES WITH PLAYBACK QUEUES | MCCORD, PAUL C | 26d overdue |
| 18982755 | Priority Media Content | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 15d overdue |
| 19346865 | IMMERSIVE AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 3d overdue |
| 18808709 | Wireless Transmission to Satellites for Multichannel Audio System | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2d overdue |
| 18745199 | Dynamic Bonding of Playback Devices | MCCORD, PAUL C | 5d |
| 18597873 | Systems and Methods for Calibrating a Playback Device | MCCORD, PAUL C | 6d |
| 18800916 | Sound and Light Experiences | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 8 |
| 2691 | 3 |
| 2161 | 2 |
| 2443 | 2 |
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2174 | 2 |
| 2657 | 2 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19346865 | IMMERSIVE AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19022968 | STORING GENERATED DIGITAL OBJECTS ON A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18982755 | Priority Media Content | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 2482 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18968672 | AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, DARREN B | 2435 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18886512 | Media Playback System Control via Multiple Networks | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18808709 | Wireless Transmission to Satellites for Multichannel Audio System | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2693 | Other | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18802146 | TECHNIQUES FOR RE-BONDING PLAYBACK DEVICES | HUBER, PAUL W | 2691 | Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18800916 | Sound and Light Experiences | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2844 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18791140 | CONTENT RULES ENGINES FOR AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES | MEI, XU | 2695 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18779850 | Content Mixing | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18766327 | Intelligent User Interfaces for Playback Devices | YOON, ERIC | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18760210 | Playback Zone Representations | ORR, HENRY W | 2172 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18745199 | Dynamic Bonding of Playback Devices | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18654711 | Contextualization of Voice Inputs | GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | 2656 | Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18635422 | Management of Media Playback System Splits and Location Designation for Partitions of a Media Playback System | NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 2691 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18635595 | Multi-User Media Playback System | TOLENTINO, RODERICK | 2439 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18621824 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT FEEDBACK | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18696467 | USE OF AN ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) RADIO IN PLAYBACK DEVICES | NEFF, MICHAEL R | 2631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18597873 | Systems and Methods for Calibrating a Playback Device | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18430181 | CONTENT DISCOVERY THOUGH PROMPTS | NEHCHIRI, KOOROSH | 2174 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18411731 | Room-Informed Binaural Rendering | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §102 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18408495 | Delay Gating for Voice Arbitration | SAINT CYR, LEONARD | 2658 | §102 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18514882 | ASSOCIATING PLAYBACK DEVICES WITH PLAYBACK QUEUES | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18508060 | Networked Microphone Devices, Systems, and Methods of Localized Arbitration | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 2657 | Other | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18474961 | Cloud Queue Access Control | MAUNG, THOMAS H | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18473761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY STORING MEDIA CONTENT ON PORTABLE PLAYBACK DEVICES | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18464848 | Multiple Media Playback Protocols for Synchronized Media Playback in Grouped Zones | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18549543 | Off-LAN Experience for Portables | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18452909 | PROVIDING TEMPORARY GUEST ACCESS TO A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18311862 | Audio Content Search in a Media Playback System | GLASSER, DARA J | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 120d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 18184414 | MULTICHANNEL COMPRESSED AUDIO TRANSMISSION TO SATELLITE PLAYBACK DEVICES | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18066926 | Synchronized Audio Mixing | GAY, SONIA L | 2657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 17833224 | RADIO COEXISTENCE TECHNIQUES FOR PLAYBACK DEVICES | TSVEY, GENNADIY | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17113419 | Systems, Methods, Apparatus, and Articles of Manufacture to Provide Automatic Wireless Configuration | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 2449 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2020 |
| 17101549 | Media Item Context in Social Media Posts | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Nov 23, 2020 |
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