Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Soundhound AI Ip LLC

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (14%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only6 (86%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
6
Communications
86% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SERROU, ABDELALI 1 74.2% +30.5%
MAY, ROBERT F 1 75.5% +30.5%
PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 1 83.0% +12.7%
SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K 1 68.0% +34.4%
VILLENA, MARK 1 70.4% +15.4%
MAUNG, THOMAS H 1 63.6% +39.0%
ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 1 74.3% +8.2%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18778301 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE MORPHING IN A DATA ANNOTATOR TOOL PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 49d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18391886 MULTI-PARTICIPANT VOICE ORDERING VILLENA, MARK 16d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17694703 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE UNIDENTIFIABLE MORPHING MAUNG, THOMAS H 32d overdue
18391886 MULTI-PARTICIPANT VOICE ORDERING VILLENA, MARK 16d overdue
18783423 AUTOMATIC LEARNING OF ENTITIES, WORDS, PRONUNCIATIONS, AND PARTS OF SPEECH SERROU, ABDELALI 16d
18780970 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL ASSISTANTS MAY, ROBERT F 28d
18666627 DYNAMIC PARALLEL NESTED LLM PROMPTS WITH STREAMING ACTIONS SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K 35d
18778301 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE MORPHING IN A DATA ANNOTATOR TOOL PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 49d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2659 3
2154 1
2655 1
2658 1
2692 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18783423 AUTOMATIC LEARNING OF ENTITIES, WORDS, PRONUNCIATIONS, AND PARTS OF SPEECH SERROU, ABDELALI 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jul 25, 2024
18780970 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL ASSISTANTS MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 23, 2024
18778301 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE MORPHING IN A DATA ANNOTATOR TOOL PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Jul 19, 2024
18666627 DYNAMIC PARALLEL NESTED LLM PROMPTS WITH STREAMING ACTIONS SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending May 16, 2024
18391886 MULTI-PARTICIPANT VOICE ORDERING VILLENA, MARK 2658 §101 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
17694703 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE UNIDENTIFIABLE MORPHING MAUNG, THOMAS H 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2022
17580289 Text-to-Speech Adapted by Machine Learning ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2022

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