Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
20 pending office actions • 17 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spotify AB has 19 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio spans 17 examiners and 15 art units, so the pending work is distributed broadly across examination assignments rather than concentrated in one recurring setting.
KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That limited concentration provides only a small opportunity for examiner-specific coordination. The larger management issue is consistency across communications cases reviewed by different examiners and art units. Counsel should maintain a clear platform-level technical narrative while tailoring claim construction and prior-art analysis to each examination context.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 3 (15%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (20%) |
| §103 only | 9 (45%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 2 | 52.1% | +37.9% |
| SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | 1 | 67.6% | +20.6% |
| NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | 1 | 83.9% | +13.4% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.5% | +19.8% |
| CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | 1 | 79.1% | +17.8% |
| VO, HUYEN X | 1 | 83.4% | +19.9% |
| MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 1 | 81.1% | +32.3% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.3% |
| MCCORD, PAUL C | 1 | 69.3% | +25.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 4d overdue |
| 19039572 | Human-Machine Interfaces for Utterance-Based Playlist Selection | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | — |
| 18882628 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED MEDIA PREVIEW | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18056101 | CONTRASTIVE EMBEDDING OF STRUCTURED SPACE FOR BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 28d |
| 19069056 | Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| 19090827 | Media Content Item Recommendation System | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | — |
| 19024265 | VOICE FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE OF MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE | MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | — |
| 18916472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NON-NARRATIVE REGIONS OF TEXTS | VO, HUYEN X | — |
| 18760765 | Systems and Methods for Culturally-Informed Content Moderation | STARKS, WILBERT L | — |
| 18676244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINING SHARED PLAYBACK SESSIONS | SHEN, SAMUEL | — |
| 18589139 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DONOR SELECTION FOR SYNTHETIC CONTROL MODELS | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805857 | AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION | MCCORD, PAUL C | 5d overdue |
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 4d overdue |
| 18063023 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Semantic Search of Audio Content | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 28d |
| 17584512 | SERVER-BASED FALSE WAKE WORD DETECTION | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 34d |
| 19069056 | Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| 19241130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACES FOR MIXED MEDIA CONTENT TYPES | SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | — |
| 19090827 | Media Content Item Recommendation System | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | — |
| 19024265 | VOICE FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE OF MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE | MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2658 | 3 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2122 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACES FOR MIXED MEDIA CONTENT TYPES | SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | 2424 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19090827 | Media Content Item Recommendation System | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | 2161 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19069056 | Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19039572 | Human-Machine Interfaces for Utterance-Based Playlist Selection | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19024265 | VOICE FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE OF MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE | MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | 2658 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18916472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NON-NARRATIVE REGIONS OF TEXTS | VO, HUYEN X | — | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 2457 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18882628 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED MEDIA PREVIEW | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18805857 | AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18791022 | Systems and Methods for Selecting a Set of Media Items Using a Diffusion Model | PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL | 2169 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18760765 | Systems and Methods for Culturally-Informed Content Moderation | STARKS, WILBERT L | 2122 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18676244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINING SHARED PLAYBACK SESSIONS | SHEN, SAMUEL | 2179 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18589139 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DONOR SELECTION FOR SYNTHETIC CONTROL MODELS | WASAFF, JOHN S. | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18408251 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | ALAM, HOSAIN T | 2132 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18174145 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND A METHOD OF TRAINING A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM | ISKENDER, ALVIN ALIK | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18063023 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Semantic Search of Audio Content | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 18056101 | CONTRASTIVE EMBEDDING OF STRUCTURED SPACE FOR BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 2121 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17898191 | GROUP LISTENING SESSION DISCOVERY | CHOWDHURY, NIGAR | 2484 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17860019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA DISCOVERY | DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | 2125 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17584512 | SERVER-BASED FALSE WAKE WORD DETECTION | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 2658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSpotify AB has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 17 art units and 19 examiners.
Rodrigo A Chavez has the most, with 2 of Spotify AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
