Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
TouchTunes Music Corporation operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 5 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a decentralized prosecution landscape with some clustering in specific technical groups.
ALVAREZ, RAQUEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. The prosecution involves 5 different examiners, but they are grouped within only 3 distinct art units. This means that while the company must navigate 5 different individual perspectives, there is some overlap in the technical units reviewing the applications.
The fact that 5 examiners are working within 3 distinct art units suggests that at least some of the 5 pending office actions are being evaluated by the same technical group. This can help practitioners identify common themes or standards that may apply across multiple cases. However, with 5 distinct examiners, the company still needs to manage 5 unique relationships to move its current portfolio toward allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | 1 | 68.3% | +32.9% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN S | 1 | 64.9% | +38.5% |
| POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 1 | 21.4% | +30.5% |
| HEWITT II, CALVIN L | 1 | 1.4% | +6.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18437308 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING PIN-INCLUSIVE TRANSACTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | HEWITT II, CALVIN L | 188d overdue |
| 18628209 | DIGITAL DOWNLOADING JUKEBOX WITH REVENUE-ENHANCING FEATURES | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 81d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18628209 | DIGITAL DOWNLOADING JUKEBOX WITH REVENUE-ENHANCING FEATURES | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 81d overdue |
| 18917520 | DIGITAL JUKEBOX DEVICE WITH IMPROVED USER INTERFACES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | — |
| 18775450 | DIGITAL JUKEBOX DEVICE WITH IMPROVED USER INTERFACES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | NGUYEN, TUAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2179 | 2 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917520 | DIGITAL JUKEBOX DEVICE WITH IMPROVED USER INTERFACES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | 2179 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18775450 | DIGITAL JUKEBOX DEVICE WITH IMPROVED USER INTERFACES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | NGUYEN, TUAN S | 2179 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18628209 | DIGITAL DOWNLOADING JUKEBOX WITH REVENUE-ENHANCING FEATURES | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 81d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18437308 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING PIN-INCLUSIVE TRANSACTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | HEWITT II, CALVIN L | 4100 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 188d overdue | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTouchTunes Music Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Tuyetlien T Tran has the most, with 1 of TouchTunes Music Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
