Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vizio Inc. has 7 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct art units, showing a variety of technical focuses within the communications field. The prosecution involves 7 distinct examiners, indicating that no multiple pending actions are currently assigned to the same person at the patent office.
EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This matches the distribution where each of the 7 distinct examiners handles exactly one of the 7 pending actions. Managing this portfolio requires addressing the unique perspectives of the examiners across 5 art units. Because each matter is with a different examiner, the company cannot rely on a relationship with a specific individual to streamline its 7 pending office actions. The diversity of the art units further complicates the prosecution landscape for these communications filings.
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 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
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 | 71.9% | +20.5% |
| WERNER, DAVID N | 1 | 68.1% | +16.5% |
| HSU, AMY R | 1 | 86.6% | -1.2% |
| FANG-WU, JOHN HONG | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LU, HUA | 1 | 69.4% | +26.4% |
| SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | 1 | 76.5% | +10.6% |
| AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | 1 | 81.1% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18089452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA BOUNDARY DETECTION | AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | 13d |
| 19034829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CAMERA SYSTEMS FOR SMART TV APPLICATIONS | HSU, AMY R | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18089452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA BOUNDARY DETECTION | AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | 13d |
| 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 |
| 2638 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| 2671 | 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 | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19034829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CAMERA SYSTEMS FOR SMART TV APPLICATIONS | HSU, AMY R | 2638 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 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 | — | §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 |
| 18089452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA BOUNDARY DETECTION | AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | 2671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
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