Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Valve Corporation has 5 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 5 actions are perfectly distributed across 5 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners. This 1 to 1 mapping of actions to both examiners and art units suggests a diverse set of patent applications within the communications field. SCHNURR, JOHN R is the busiest examiner, though he only handles 1 pending office action.
Because each of the 5 pending office actions is in a different art unit, the company must prepare for 5 different sets of examination guidelines. The lack of overlap among the 5 distinct examiners means that no single examiner's history will provide a template for the rest of the portfolio's prosecution. Practitioners must tailor their approach to each of the 5 pending office actions individually without the benefit of shared examiner history.
The 1 to 1 ratio of examiners to actions means that no single examiner's history will provide a template for the rest of the portfolio. Because the 5 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, the company faces a fragmented examination process. This requires a prosecution strategy that is both technically broad and individually focused, as the 5 distinct examiners will likely apply different standards of review across the various communications disciplines.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNURR, JOHN R | 1 | 72.1% | +10.7% |
| CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | 1 | 56.4% | +29.5% |
| JAVED, MAHEEN I | 1 | 56.7% | +36.4% |
| XIAO, KE | 1 | 35.9% | +28.0% |
| LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | 1 | 14.1% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17733330 | Intelligent Content-Item Recommendations | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17900129 | ADJUSTABLE HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY TO ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENT HEAD AND FACE SIZES | XIAO, KE | 5d |
| 19383025 | EYE TRACKING USING TIME-BASED FILTERING | SCHNURR, JOHN R | — |
| 18673058 | WIRELESS CHARGING CASE | CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | — |
| 18461295 | OPTICAL EYE TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JAVED, MAHEEN I | — |
| 17733330 | Intelligent Content-Item Recommendations | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2425 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19383025 | EYE TRACKING USING TIME-BASED FILTERING | SCHNURR, JOHN R | 2425 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 18673058 | WIRELESS CHARGING CASE | CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | 2841 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18461295 | OPTICAL EYE TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JAVED, MAHEEN I | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 17900129 | ADJUSTABLE HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY TO ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENT HEAD AND FACE SIZES | XIAO, KE | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 17733330 | Intelligent Content-Item Recommendations | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | 3624 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialValve Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
John R Schnurr has the most, with 1 of Valve Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
