Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sphere Entertainment Group LLC has 7 pending office actions in Communications. Those matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the prosecution record. The difference between the examiner and art-unit figures indicates that at least one art unit is associated with more than one examiner in the available data.
SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for a concentrated share of the listed actions, so a practitioner should manage the portfolio through matter-specific review rather than a single examiner strategy. The six art-unit assignments also support tracking office-action themes by unit while preserving separate examiner histories.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSSELMAN, JOEL W | 1 | 78.3% | +13.7% |
| CUTLER, ALBERT H | 1 | 79.4% | +21.1% |
| SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 1 | 76.0% | +6.6% |
| GRAY, RYAN M | 1 | 87.8% | +11.8% |
| BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 1 | 67.9% | +34.8% |
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 48.8% | +53.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660725 | GENERATING VIRTUAL USER DEVICES IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT THAT MIRROR REAL-WORLD USER DEVICES IN A REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENT | GRAY, RYAN M | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319123 | FLUID TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTING ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS RELATING TO AN EVENT | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 8d overdue |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319123 | FLUID TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTING ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS RELATING TO AN EVENT | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 8d overdue |
| 18660725 | GENERATING VIRTUAL USER DEVICES IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT THAT MIRROR REAL-WORLD USER DEVICES IN A REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENT | GRAY, RYAN M | 40d |
| 19014880 | STORING IMAGE DATA IN AN IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM | FOSSELMAN, JOEL W | — |
| 19013711 | LARGE IMAGE SENSOR PACKAGE | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — |
| 18332874 | PROJECTING IMAGES ON A SPHERICAL VENUE | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 2 |
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014880 | STORING IMAGE DATA IN AN IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM | FOSSELMAN, JOEL W | 2639 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19013711 | LARGE IMAGE SENSOR PACKAGE | CUTLER, ALBERT H | 2637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18808836 | AIR AMPLIFIER WITH MULTI-STAGE NOISE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM | SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 2837 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18660725 | GENERATING VIRTUAL USER DEVICES IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT THAT MIRROR REAL-WORLD USER DEVICES IN A REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENT | GRAY, RYAN M | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18332874 | PROJECTING IMAGES ON A SPHERICAL VENUE | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 18319123 | FLUID TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTING ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS RELATING TO AN EVENT | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSphere Entertainment Group LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Joel W Fosselman has the most, with 1 of Sphere Entertainment Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
