Technology area: Communications
12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vivint Inc. has 12 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio involves 12 examiners across 11 art units, reflecting broad examination coverage and limited concentration in any single examiner or art-unit assignment.
VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use a coordinated docket and terminology review to manage recurring communications concepts, while treating each matter as a distinct prosecution strategy because the examination assignments are widely distributed.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (33%) |
| §103 only | 5 (42%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | 1 | 35.1% | +54.5% |
| YEN, JASON TAHAI | 1 | 76.9% | +23.7% |
| NGUYEN, AN T | 1 | 67.8% | +18.8% |
| RUSHING, MARK S | 1 | 76.8% | +23.5% |
| YANG, QIAN | 1 | 73.6% | +31.3% |
| KING, CURTIS J | 1 | 68.2% | +29.6% |
| GARCIA, PAULO ANDRES | 1 | 78.8% | +27.8% |
| HAIDER, SYED | 1 | 83.5% | +7.0% |
| BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA | 1 | 76.9% | +28.4% |
| CHOWDHURY, NIGAR | 1 | 69.1% | +16.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18177105 | TECHNIQUES FOR A SMART MONITORING SYSTEM | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 9d overdue |
| 18484421 | DISASTER DETECTION AND RECOVERY | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 4d overdue |
| 18926565 | Systems and Methods of Deterrence Using Intruder Mobile Device | RUSHING, MARK S | 22d |
| 19009933 | Systems and Methods to Generate Deterrence Actions | VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | — |
| 18972904 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Yard Games | YEN, JASON TAHAI | — |
| 18617156 | MULTI-SOURCE OBJECT DETECTION AND ESCALATED ACTION | HAIDER, SYED | — |
| 18595240 | MULTI-SOURCE OBJECT DETECTION | BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18591868 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DETERRENCE TECHNIQUES FOR SECURITY AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS | CHOWDHURY, NIGAR | 309d overdue |
| 18926565 | Systems and Methods of Deterrence Using Intruder Mobile Device | RUSHING, MARK S | 22d |
| 18937398 | Determining Actions of a System Based on Approaching Entity | NGUYEN, AN T | 76d |
| 19009933 | Systems and Methods to Generate Deterrence Actions | VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | — |
| 18972904 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Yard Games | YEN, JASON TAHAI | — |
| 18924159 | Using Machine-Learning Models to Enforce Restricted Areas | YANG, QIAN | — |
| 18922880 | USING MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS TO PROTECT VEHICLES | KING, CURTIS J | — |
| 18922762 | Using Machine-Learning Models to Identify and Deter Package Theft | GARCIA, PAULO ANDRES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 2 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| 2633 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009933 | Systems and Methods to Generate Deterrence Actions | VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | 2481 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2025 |
| 18972904 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Yard Games | YEN, JASON TAHAI | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2024 |
| 18937398 | Determining Actions of a System Based on Approaching Entity | NGUYEN, AN T | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18926565 | Systems and Methods of Deterrence Using Intruder Mobile Device | RUSHING, MARK S | 2689 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18924159 | Using Machine-Learning Models to Enforce Restricted Areas | YANG, QIAN | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18922880 | USING MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS TO PROTECT VEHICLES | KING, CURTIS J | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18922762 | Using Machine-Learning Models to Identify and Deter Package Theft | GARCIA, PAULO ANDRES | 2669 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18617156 | MULTI-SOURCE OBJECT DETECTION AND ESCALATED ACTION | HAIDER, SYED | 2633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18595240 | MULTI-SOURCE OBJECT DETECTION | BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA | 2144 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18591868 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DETERRENCE TECHNIQUES FOR SECURITY AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS | CHOWDHURY, NIGAR | 2484 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 309d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18484421 | DISASTER DETECTION AND RECOVERY | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 3694 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18177105 | TECHNIQUES FOR A SMART MONITORING SYSTEM | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVivint Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 12 examiners.
William C Vaughn Jr. has the most, with 1 of Vivint Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
