Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Spotify AB

16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (6%)
14
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only14 (88%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
11
Information Tech
69% of docket
4
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 2 51.1% +38.6%
STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 1 28.7% +20.7%
SHANG, ANNAN Q 1 70.8% +10.8%
MENDAYE, KIDEST H 1 81.4% +32.2%
MCCORD, PAUL C 1 69.2% +26.1%
PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 1 58.1% +31.7%
LE, RONG 1 68.0% +29.8%
CAIADO, ANTONIO J 1 68.9% +50.7%
BOYD, ALEXANDER L 1 74.1% +23.5%
HOANG, KEN 1 72.3% +31.6%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18896678 GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT MENDAYE, KIDEST H 4d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19069056 Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 56d

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18356966 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZING NARRATED MEDIA CONTENT BASED ON A MEDIA DESCRIPTION FILE BOYD, ALEXANDER L 112d overdue
18472919 Systems and Methods for Providing Content to Users CAIADO, ANTONIO J 46d overdue
18300295 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUGGESTING QUERIES USING A GRAPH HOANG, KEN 17d overdue
18805857 AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION MCCORD, PAUL C 5d overdue
18525593 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTIVE QUEUING FOR SHARED LISTENING SESSIONS LE, RONG 5d overdue
18896678 GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT MENDAYE, KIDEST H 4d overdue
18791022 Systems and Methods for Selecting a Set of Media Items Using a Diffusion Model PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 14d
18063023 Systems and Methods for Facilitating Semantic Search of Audio Content CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2424 2
2164 2
2658 2
3621 1
2457 1
2692 1
2169 1
2421 1
2168 1
2654 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19069056 Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 3621 §101 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 03, 2025
18930998 Systems and Methods for Providing Play Context Recognition Using Ultrasound Codes SHANG, ANNAN Q 2424 Other Final Rejection 55d Pending Oct 29, 2024
18896678 GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT MENDAYE, KIDEST H 2457 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18805857 AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 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 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18525593 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTIVE QUEUING FOR SHARED LISTENING SESSIONS LE, RONG 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18472919 Systems and Methods for Providing Content to Users CAIADO, ANTONIO J 2164 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18356966 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZING NARRATED MEDIA CONTENT BASED ON A MEDIA DESCRIPTION FILE BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2023
18300295 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUGGESTING QUERIES USING A GRAPH HOANG, KEN 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 13, 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
18063023 Systems and Methods for Facilitating Semantic Search of Audio Content CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 2658 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 07, 2022
18057017 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING MEDIA CONTENT DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
18056101 CONTRASTIVE EMBEDDING OF STRUCTURED SPACE FOR BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION PHAM, JESSICA THUY 2121 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Nov 16, 2022
17898191 GROUP LISTENING SESSION DISCOVERY CHOWDHURY, NIGAR 2484 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 29, 2022
17851426 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR DIVERSE CONTENT GENERATION WONG, LUT 2127 §103 Final Rejection 117d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2022
17584512 SERVER-BASED FALSE WAKE WORD DETECTION CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 26, 2022

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