Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vizio Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Communications. Each matter is associated with a different examiner and art unit, with 6 examiners and 6 art units represented.
EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile supports application-specific prosecution planning rather than reliance on a concentrated examiner or art-unit strategy.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI | 1 | 71.8% | +20.8% |
| WERNER, DAVID N | 1 | 68.4% | +16.1% |
| FANG-WU, JOHN HONG | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LU, HUA | 1 | 69.3% | +26.5% |
| SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | 1 | 76.6% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924525 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOICE-BASED TRIGGER FOR SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT | FANG-WU, JOHN HONG | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19288115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT-BASED CONTENT RECOGNITION | EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI | — |
| 19039977 | TELEVISION MONITOR WITH DUAL CONFIGURATION SUPPORT ASSEMBLY | WERNER, DAVID N | — |
| 18894456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CONTEXT-BASED INPUT INTERFACES | LU, HUA | — |
| 18789873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY POWERING TV REMOTE MICROPHONES | SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2425 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT-BASED CONTENT RECOGNITION | EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI | 2425 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19039977 | TELEVISION MONITOR WITH DUAL CONFIGURATION SUPPORT ASSEMBLY | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18924525 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOICE-BASED TRIGGER FOR SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT | FANG-WU, JOHN HONG | 2653 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18894456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CONTEXT-BASED INPUT INTERFACES | LU, HUA | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18789873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY POWERING TV REMOTE MICROPHONES | SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | 2695 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVizio Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Nnenna Ngozi Ekpo has the most, with 1 of Vizio Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
