Technology areas: Networking & Security • 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
SoundHound AI Inc. has a company patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area. The portfolio currently features 3 pending office actions, which are spread across 3 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's technologies are being reviewed in several different technical contexts. The 3 pending office actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, requiring the company to manage three separate examiner relationships.
SIRJANI, FARIBA is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates an even distribution of the 3 pending office actions across the 3 distinct examiners. With each action residing in one of the 3 distinct art units, the company's prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of each unit. The presence of 3 pending office actions shows an active effort to expand its patent footprint in the Networking & Security sector. Practitioners should observe that the 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units create a decentralized prosecution environment. This structure ensures that the 3 pending office actions are evaluated from multiple technical perspectives within the Networking & Security field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIRJANI, FARIBA | 1 | 75.4% | +31.8% |
| HUANG, KAYLEE J | 1 | 74.7% | +48.7% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17818628 | Authorization of Action by Voice Identification | HUANG, KAYLEE J | 23d overdue |
| 18361791 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROACTIVE INTERACTION | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18361791 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROACTIVE INTERACTION | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 2659 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 17818628 | Authorization of Action by Voice Identification | HUANG, KAYLEE J | 2447 | §112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSoundHound AI Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Fariba Sirjani has the most, with 1 of SoundHound AI Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
