Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sphere Entertainment Group LLC manages a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area with 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners. This means every pending action is being handled by a different individual. The prosecution is distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's Communications filings touch upon several different technical sub-specialties.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given the distribution of workload, no single examiner holds more than 1 action. The ratio of 4 distinct art units relative to the pending office actions suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter within the Communications field. This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the varied perspectives of different administrative units. The company must manage these distinct examiner relationships simultaneously.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | 1 | 76.5% | +10.6% |
| CUTLER, ALBERT H | 1 | 79.4% | +21.1% |
| SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 1 | 76.0% | +6.5% |
| GRAY, RYAN M | 1 | 87.6% | +11.7% |
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 49.4% | +53.4% |
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 2 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 |
| 19022098 | LIGHT-BASED SPATIAL AUDIO METERING | SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | — |
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 4 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 |
| 19022098 | LIGHT-BASED SPATIAL AUDIO METERING | SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | — |
| 19013711 | LARGE IMAGE SENSOR PACKAGE | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022098 | LIGHT-BASED SPATIAL AUDIO METERING | SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 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 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 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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