Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
20 pending office actions • 14 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spotify AB manages 20 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 19 distinct examiners, suggesting that almost every pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. This broad distribution reduces the risk associated with any single examiner's decisions. The portfolio spans 14 distinct art units, indicating significant technical diversity within the communications field. CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. This shows that no single examiner has a large influence over the total portfolio.
With 20 pending office actions and 19 distinct examiners, Spotify AB must navigate a wide variety of examination styles. The 14 distinct art units further complicate the prosecution landscape, requiring a broad strategy that accounts for many different USPTO technical groups. The low concentration of actions per examiner, with a maximum of 2 for the busiest examiner, is a key feature of this portfolio. This decentralized structure requires the applicant to maintain consistent strategies across many different USPTO groups. The involvement of 19 distinct examiners means that the company's patent outcomes are distributed across a wide variety of individual perspectives.
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 | 3 (15%) |
| §103 only | 10 (50%) |
| §102 only | 2 (10%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (5%) |
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 | 52.5% | +38.0% |
| SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | 1 | 67.6% | +20.5% |
| NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | 1 | 83.9% | +13.4% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.2% | +20.8% |
| CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | 1 | 78.8% | +18.4% |
| MORRISON, JAY A | 1 | 81.0% | +23.3% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.2% |
| HERZOG, MADHURI R | 1 | 78.3% | +12.4% |
| MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 1 | 81.0% | +32.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 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 | — |
| 19023186 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | MORRISON, JAY A | — |
| 18878265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING USING ADAPTIVE SOFT CLIPPING WITH LOOKAHEAD | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 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 | — |
| 18589139 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DONOR SELECTION FOR SYNTHETIC CONTROL MODELS | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — |
| 18165817 | Systems and Methods for Language Identification in Audio Content | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | — |
| 17860019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA DISCOVERY | DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 19023186 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | MORRISON, JAY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2161 | 2 |
| 2658 | 2 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2654 | 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 | — | 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 | Final Rejection | 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 | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19023186 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | MORRISON, JAY A | 2161 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18878265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING USING ADAPTIVE SOFT CLIPPING WITH LOOKAHEAD | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18976868 | Access Control for On-Device Machine Learning Models | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 2438 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 2457 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18805857 | AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18589139 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DONOR SELECTION FOR SYNTHETIC CONTROL MODELS | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18408251 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | ALAM, HOSAIN T | 2156 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18262242 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODIFYING SPEECH GENERATED BY A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESISER | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 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 |
| 18165817 | Systems and Methods for Language Identification in Audio Content | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | 2659 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 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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