Listed by the USPTO as RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL
Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2694
This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases
RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL is a USPTO patent examiner in tech center 2600 and art unit 2694. The profile records 26 resolved cases, with an allowance rate of 65.4% and a median of 997 days to allowance. The limited case volume makes the underlying prosecution histories important to any assessment. The allowance rate indicates that allowances form a majority of the recorded outcomes, while the median interval shows that allowance still takes substantial time.
The interview lift is 40.0%, associating interviews with a strong improvement in allowance outcomes within this record. AAC Technologies Holdings Inc., Qualcomm Incorporated, and Apple Inc. are the listed leading companies. Wiersch Law Group, BANNER & WITCOFF, LTD, and Barron & Young PLLC are the listed leading firms. Counsel may want to use interviews actively, while validating the pattern against individual files and planning around the 997-day median.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777318 | Supplemental Audio Rendering Configuration Data | Final Rejection | Apple Inc. |
| 18712717 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Final Rejection | Sony Group Corporation |
| 18641047 | AUDIO PLAYING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | Final Rejection | HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. |
| 18747871 | REDUCING LOW DROPOUT (LDO) QUIESCENT CURRENT USING DIGITAL AUDIO CONFIGURATION | Final Rejection | QUALCOMM Incorporated |
| 18352867 | AUDIO WITH EMBEDDED TIMING FOR SYNCHRONIZATION | Final Rejection | QUALCOMM Incorporated |
| 17544749 | AUTOMATIC TINNITUS MASKER FOR AN EAR-WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Final Rejection | Starkey Laboratories, Inc. |
| 18330720 | MULTIPLEXING APPLICATION CHANNELS ON ISOCHRONOUS STREAMS | Non-Final OA | Bose Corporation |
IP Author analyzes examiner patterns and generates tailored response strategies with the highest chance of allowance.
Build Your Strategy65.4% of resolved applications examined by Sean Michael Rinehart were allowed (26 resolved cases), compared with 72.0% across Art Unit 2694 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +40.0 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Sean Michael Rinehart took 997 days on average from filing to allowance.
Sean Michael Rinehart examines applications in Art Unit 2694 in Tech Center 2600 (Communications).
