Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Diablo Canyon Collective LLC has 8 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing a distributed portfolio with some repetition across examination assignments. The spread requires coordination across multiple records rather than reliance on a single examiner relationship.
SZUMNY, JONATHON A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment is the only identified examiner concentration in the profile, making it a useful focal point for consistency review while the remaining actions require separate examiner-specific analysis.
The communications classification provides a common technical frame, but the art unit distribution indicates that prosecution issues may arise in different examination environments. Counsel can use shared claim terminology and disclosure positions while preserving tailored arguments for each office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 5 (62%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 2 | 56.8% | +54.9% |
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 1 | 70.6% | +20.3% |
| MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 1 | 75.4% | +7.1% |
| PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL | 1 | 58.8% | +30.5% |
| GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 1 | 85.2% | +6.2% |
| LAO, LUNSEE | 1 | 75.8% | +15.8% |
| PASHA, ATHAR N | 1 | 90.0% | +16.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930508 | Methods and Systems for Establishing and Maintaining Presence Information of Neighboring Bluetooth Devices | GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | — |
| 18799319 | Methods and Systems for Processing, Storing, and Publishing Data Collected by an In-Ear Device | PASHA, ATHAR N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022912 | BIOMETRIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING USING A CLOSED CHAMBER | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 56d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18596396 | BIOMETRIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING USING A CLOSED CHAMBER | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 12d |
| 18931988 | Methods and Systems for Searching Utilizing Acoustical Context | PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL | 14d |
| 19022912 | BIOMETRIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING USING A CLOSED CHAMBER | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 56d |
| 19022889 | Hearing Sensitivity Acquisition Methods and Devices | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | — |
| 18905912 | Method to Estimate Hearing Impairment Compensation Function | LAO, LUNSEE | — |
| 18799319 | Methods and Systems for Processing, Storing, and Publishing Data Collected by an In-Ear Device | PASHA, ATHAR N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3686 | 2 |
| 2692 | 2 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2648 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022912 | BIOMETRIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING USING A CLOSED CHAMBER | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 3686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19022889 | Hearing Sensitivity Acquisition Methods and Devices | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18991113 | Sensor Control of an Audio Device | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 2692 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18931988 | Methods and Systems for Searching Utilizing Acoustical Context | PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL | 2169 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18930508 | Methods and Systems for Establishing and Maintaining Presence Information of Neighboring Bluetooth Devices | GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18905912 | Method to Estimate Hearing Impairment Compensation Function | LAO, LUNSEE | 2691 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18799319 | Methods and Systems for Processing, Storing, and Publishing Data Collected by an In-Ear Device | PASHA, ATHAR N | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18596396 | BIOMETRIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING USING A CLOSED CHAMBER | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 3686 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe Diablo Canyon Collective LLC has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Jonathon A Szumny has the most, with 2 of The Diablo Canyon Collective LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
