Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed across 2 examiners and 1 art unit, indicating that prosecution is concentrated within a single technical examination group while involving more than one examiner.
GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN is handling 2 of the pending matters. That concentration makes examiner-specific claim strategy and consistent treatment of related issues practical priorities for ongoing prosecution.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 2 | 54.5% | +50.3% |
| QIN, JIANCHUN | 1 | 69.3% | +14.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034031 | PITCH ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | QIN, JIANCHUN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291538 | AUDIO SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18278602 | AUDIO MIXING SONG GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18034031 | PITCH ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | QIN, JIANCHUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291538 | AUDIO SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18278602 | AUDIO MIXING SONG GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 2837 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18034031 | PITCH ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | QIN, JIANCHUN | 2837 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicole Kathleen Gillespie has the most, with 2 of Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
