Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners, showing a very high level of individual examiner engagement. The busiest examiner, CULLEN, TANNER L, is responsible for 2 pending office actions, which is the only instance of examiner overlap in the current portfolio.
The 11 pending office actions are categorized into 6 distinct art units. This suggests that while the company's work falls under Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, it is concentrated into a few specific technical areas within the USPTO. With 10 distinct examiners and 6 art units, practitioners must manage a variety of examiner perspectives while navigating the standards of half a dozen different art units. The fact that CULLEN, TANNER L handles 2 pending office actions provides a small point of consistency in an otherwise dispersed 11-action portfolio. This distribution highlights the need for a coordinated strategy across the 6 art units involved.
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 | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULLEN, TANNER L | 2 | 72.3% | +16.3% |
| PARRA, OMAR S | 1 | 74.6% | +9.1% |
| CUFF, MICHAEL A | 1 | 82.3% | +12.6% |
| YEN, JASON TAHAI | 1 | 76.9% | +23.7% |
| MARIAM, DANIEL G | 1 | 90.6% | +10.3% |
| PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +28.4% |
| COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 75.9% | +15.2% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 22.0% | +7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084921 | INTRA-VEHICLE GAMES | CUFF, MICHAEL A | — |
| 18985951 | SCANNER NOISE ELIMINATION FOR SCANNED FILMS | MARIAM, DANIEL G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989663 | FLEXIBLE COMPUTER GAMING BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING | YEN, JASON TAHAI | — |
| 16923033 | SOCIAL INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS USING BIOMETRIC SENSOR DATA FOR DETECTION OF NEURO-PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084921 | INTRA-VEHICLE GAMES | CUFF, MICHAEL A | — |
| 19027833 | CONTROL OF SOCIAL ROBOT BASED ON PRIOR CHARACTER PORTRAYAL | CULLEN, TANNER L | — |
| 18989663 | FLEXIBLE COMPUTER GAMING BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING | YEN, JASON TAHAI | — |
| 18985951 | SCANNER NOISE ELIMINATION FOR SCANNED FILMS | MARIAM, DANIEL G | — |
| 18978236 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS BASED ON CONTROL PARAMETERS IN VIDEO GAMING | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | — |
| 18827103 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MULTI-LANGUAGE MEDIA CONTENT WITH AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF MATCHING VOICES | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18130405 | CONTROL OF SOCIAL ROBOT BASED ON PRIOR CHARACTER PORTRAYAL | CULLEN, TANNER L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 4 |
| 3656 | 2 |
| 2421 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095405 | PARTIAL FRAME REPLACEMENT ENABLING MULTIPLE VERSIONS IN AN INTEGRATED VIDEO PACKAGE | PARRA, OMAR S | 2421 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19084921 | INTRA-VEHICLE GAMES | CUFF, MICHAEL A | 3715 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19027833 | CONTROL OF SOCIAL ROBOT BASED ON PRIOR CHARACTER PORTRAYAL | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18989663 | FLEXIBLE COMPUTER GAMING BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING | YEN, JASON TAHAI | 3715 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18985951 | SCANNER NOISE ELIMINATION FOR SCANNED FILMS | MARIAM, DANIEL G | 2668 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18978236 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS BASED ON CONTROL PARAMETERS IN VIDEO GAMING | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 3715 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18827103 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MULTI-LANGUAGE MEDIA CONTENT WITH AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF MATCHING VOICES | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2655 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 16923033 | SOCIAL INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS USING BIOMETRIC SENSOR DATA FOR DETECTION OF NEURO-PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18130405 | CONTROL OF SOCIAL ROBOT BASED ON PRIOR CHARACTER PORTRAYAL | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 8 examiners.
Tanner L Cullen has the most, with 2 of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
