Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sound United LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The presence of 2 distinct art units further indicates that the company's applications are being processed in different specialized divisions within the Communications sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MOONEY, JAMES K, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 2 pending office actions total for the company. Because the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the company must navigate multiple examination styles and departmental standards. This distribution requires a coordinated strategy to ensure that the 2 pending office actions are handled consistently across the different units and examiners involved.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.5% | +22.1% |
| BLAIR, KILE O | 1 | 63.9% | +7.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18358081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING A HOME MEDIA SYSTEM AND OTHER HOME SYSTEMS | BLAIR, KILE O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18903481 | USER SPECIFIC AUDITORY PROFILES | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2695 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18903481 | USER SPECIFIC AUDITORY PROFILES | MOONEY, JAMES K | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18358081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING A HOME MEDIA SYSTEM AND OTHER HOME SYSTEMS | BLAIR, KILE O | 2691 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
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