Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Soundshop Music Inc. has a focused patent presence in the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently manages 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of its active prosecution workload. This single action is assigned to a distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current regulatory interactions on a single individual.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current technical claims in Networking & Security are being evaluated by a specific specialized group at the patent office. The alignment of the pending office action with a single art unit suggests a very narrow and specific area of current patent activity.
MENGESHA, MULUGETA A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding the pending office action. As the only examiner currently reviewing the company's work, this individual's workload constitutes the full scope of the company's pending matters. This high level of concentration means the outcome of this single action is critical for the company's current portfolio status.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 1 | 81.6% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19262929 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ENHANCING AUDIO IN A RECORDED VIDEO | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19262929 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ENHANCING AUDIO IN A RECORDED VIDEO | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262929 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ENHANCING AUDIO IN A RECORDED VIDEO | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 2424 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
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