Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
58 pending office actions • 1 client • 51 examiners • 40 art units • 4 of 58 (7%) have an AI response strategy ready • 160 patents granted in the last 365 days
APPLE INC. - Fletcher has 59 pending office actions in Communications and 4349 career applications. The application history supplies a broad prosecution base for interpreting the current docket and the firm’s work in this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 91.98%, and the average is 3.4 office actions per allowance. This combination reflects frequent successful resolution alongside multiple examination steps, so practitioners may find amendment sequencing and persistence through examination especially relevant to this profile.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (7%) |
| §103 only | 25 (43%) |
| §102 only | 3 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (38%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2 | 81.5% | +24.8% |
| GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2 | 59.4% | +0.7% |
| FREDERIKSEN, DAVID B | 2 | 86.1% | +12.9% |
| SOROWAR, GOLAM | 2 | 81.5% | +17.8% |
| SEFCHECK, GREGORY B | 2 | 69.2% | +19.7% |
| WARMFLASH, MICHAEL J | 2 | 80.7% | +21.0% |
| PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL | 2 | 24.1% | +9.3% |
| LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 62.0% | +22.1% |
| LAM, VINH TANG | 1 | 72.7% | +8.6% |
| NOH, JAE NAM | 1 | 86.4% | -9.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19303130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RATE CONTROL FOR MULTIPLE PASS VIDEO ENCODING | NOH, JAE NAM | — |
| 19095945 | SINGLE STAGE ISOLATED AC/DC POWER SUPPLY WITH INPUT SERIES OUTPUT PARALLEL (ISOP) STRUCTURE | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| 18912331 | FRACTAL DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18898096 | PHASED ARRAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PHASE SHIFTER | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18746744 | COMMUNICATION MODULATIONS FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER | WARMFLASH, MICHAEL J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17837964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING BATTERY TEMPERATURE | BECKER, BRANDON J | 147d overdue |
| 17512462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING EVOLVING BAND REGULATIONS | PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL | 9d overdue |
| 18328736 | DISPLAY PANEL OPTICAL CROSS-TALK COMPENSATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | 5d overdue |
| 17880617 | DATA PLANE LAYER COMMUNICATION FOR USER EQUIPMENT GROUPS | CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR | 16d |
| 18624695 | FRONT-END ACTIVE RECTIFIER USING SINGLE INDUCTOR AND SERIES STACKED HALF BRIDGES FOR ISOLATED POWER SUPPLIES | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 26d |
| 18806078 | Meeting Proposal Generator | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 28d |
| 19242616 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADAR-BASED BIOMETRIC SIGNAL EXTRACTION | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 60d |
| 19341961 | Dithering Circuitry for Content-Addressable Electronic Display | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624695 | FRONT-END ACTIVE RECTIFIER USING SINGLE INDUCTOR AND SERIES STACKED HALF BRIDGES FOR ISOLATED POWER SUPPLIES | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 26d |
| 19341961 | Dithering Circuitry for Content-Addressable Electronic Display | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 19095945 | SINGLE STAGE ISOLATED AC/DC POWER SUPPLY WITH INPUT SERIES OUTPUT PARALLEL (ISOP) STRUCTURE | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| 18955560 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING SYNCHRONIZED SAMPLING | FREDERIKSEN, DAVID B | — |
| 18955381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING SYNCHRONIZED SAMPLING | FREDERIKSEN, DAVID B | — |
| 18912331 | FRACTAL DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18898096 | PHASED ARRAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PHASE SHIFTER | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18830130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SLEEPY FUNCTIONALITY IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS | SEFCHECK, GREGORY B | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Apple | 58 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2641 | 4 |
| 2836 | 3 |
| 2838 | 3 |
| 2849 | 3 |
| 2621 | 2 |
| 2625 | 2 |
| 2649 | 2 |
| 2858 | 2 |
| 2477 | 2 |
| 2843 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19341961 | Dithering Circuitry for Content-Addressable Electronic Display | Apple Inc. | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19341949 | Column Driver Circuitry for Content-Addressable Electronic Display | Apple Inc. | LAM, VINH TANG | 2628 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19303130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RATE CONTROL FOR MULTIPLE PASS VIDEO ENCODING | Apple Inc. | NOH, JAE NAM | 2481 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19250758 | POWER ACCOUNTING FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER WITH SOFT RESTART | Apple Inc. | PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19242616 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADAR-BASED BIOMETRIC SIGNAL EXTRACTION | Apple Inc. | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19241240 | General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) Supply Harvesting | Apple Inc. | JOHNSON, TERRELL S | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 | |
| 19239461 | Unlimited Bandwidth Shifting Systems and Methods of an All-Digital Phase Locked Loop | Apple Inc. | PERENY, TYLER J | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19095945 | SINGLE STAGE ISOLATED AC/DC POWER SUPPLY WITH INPUT SERIES OUTPUT PARALLEL (ISOP) STRUCTURE | Apple Inc. | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19055349 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARED ANTENNA TUNING | Apple Inc. | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 | |
| 19054533 | SPLIT INPUT AMPLIFIER FOR PROTECTION FROM DC OFFSET | Apple Inc. | YU, LIHONG | 2849 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19049940 | Electronic Display Self-Coupling Cross Talk Compensation | Apple Inc. | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2625 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19002437 | Warped Filter Architecture with Reduced Processing Rate Systems and Methods | Apple Inc. | TRAN, CON P | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18982948 | METHODS FOR CONFORMING NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION TO TERRESTRIAL STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS | Apple Inc. | LEE, JOHN J | 2649 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18955560 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING SYNCHRONIZED SAMPLING | Apple Inc. | FREDERIKSEN, DAVID B | 2858 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18955381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING SYNCHRONIZED SAMPLING | Apple Inc. | FREDERIKSEN, DAVID B | 2858 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18912331 | FRACTAL DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Apple Inc. | SOROWAR, GOLAM | 2641 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18897861 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PASS-THROUGH COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEVICES | Apple Inc. | TOKUTA, SHEAN S | 2419 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18898096 | PHASED ARRAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PHASE SHIFTER | Apple Inc. | SOROWAR, GOLAM | 2641 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18897556 | TAIL REGULATED SWITCHED CAPACITOR CONVERTERS | Apple Inc. | LEE, JYE-JUNE | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18894681 | Systems and Methods for Achieving Greater Image Generation Refresh Rates via Source Buffer Swap | Apple Inc. | OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18886538 | Curvature Interpolation for Lookup Table | Apple Inc. | PROTAZI, BRIGITER DIVULALE | 2612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18830130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SLEEPY FUNCTIONALITY IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS | Apple Inc. | SEFCHECK, GREGORY B | 2477 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18824491 | USER EQUIPMENT CONFIRMATION OF NETWORK-INITIALIZED MULTIPLE INPUT, MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION | Apple Inc. | RAMPURIA, SHARAD K | 2641 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18818861 | COMMUNICATION MODULATIONS FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER | Apple Inc. | WARMFLASH, MICHAEL J | 2849 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18810163 | ADAPTIVE DATA TRANSMISSION | Apple Inc. | OH, ANDREW CHUNG SUK | 2466 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18806078 | Meeting Proposal Generator | Apple Inc. | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18805078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFORMING TO INDOOR/OUTDOOR REGULATIONS IN UNLICENSED BANDS | Apple Inc. | HUANG, WEN WU | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18792079 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EARLY FR2 TUNE-AWAY | Apple Inc. | NGUYEN, THE HY | 2478 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18784592 | Systems and Methods for Providing Fine-Grained Arbitrary Presentation Time for Electronic Displays | Apple Inc. | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2625 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18781941 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR SIGNAL SCANNING | Apple Inc. | JAIN, RAJ K | 2411 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18767000 | RANGING WITH A MOBILE CELLULAR DEVICE | Apple Inc. | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 2644 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18763769 | WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT GEOFENCING ENHANCEMENTS | Apple Inc. | GELIN, JEAN ALLAND | 2643 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18746744 | COMMUNICATION MODULATIONS FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER | Apple Inc. | WARMFLASH, MICHAEL J | 2849 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18680787 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING BATTERY SPIKE POWER CAPABILITY | Apple Inc. | KUNDU, SUJOY K | 2471 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18678594 | Model-Based Method of Estimating Optical Electro-Chemical Cell State Via Electrical Input | Apple Inc. | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18662354 | REGULATED MOS-BASED LOAD FOR STABILIZATION OF HF AMPLIFIER/MIXER GAIN VS. PVT | Apple Inc. | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 2843 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18624695 | FRONT-END ACTIVE RECTIFIER USING SINGLE INDUCTOR AND SERIES STACKED HALF BRIDGES FOR ISOLATED POWER SUPPLIES | Apple Inc. | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | AI Ready | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18590893 | Multidimensional Image Scaler | Apple Inc. | NAH, JONGBONG | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18589102 | GNSS AND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION COEXISTENCE | Apple Inc. | KELLER, MICHAEL A | 2446 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18441744 | TUNABLE HIGH-LINEARITY LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER | Apple Inc. | LAM, TUAN THIEU | 2836 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18432987 | DUAL-CONNECTIVITY MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATION | Apple Inc. | KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18423034 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED UPLINK THROUGHPUT | Apple Inc. | WEBB, MARGARET G | 2641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | AI Ready | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18364378 | DIGITAL TETHER VIA SATELLITE | Apple Inc. | TRAN, CONGVAN | 2647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18355556 | Scribe Edge Protection Structure for Semiconductor Devices | Apple Inc. | KUPP, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18220729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SYNCHRONIZE ACROSS POSITIONING RECEIVERS FOR SECONDARY CODE ACQUISITION | Apple Inc. | MULL, FRED H | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18342065 | RECONFIGURABLE BATTERY PACK | Apple Inc. | TSO, EDWARD H | 2859 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18213669 | UTILIZING TRANSFORMER SECONDARY COIL FOR HARMONIC REJECTION FILTERING | Apple Inc. | CHEN, ZHITONG | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18339764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SLEEPY FUNCTIONALITY IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS | Apple Inc. | SEFCHECK, GREGORY B | 2477 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18328736 | DISPLAY PANEL OPTICAL CROSS-TALK COMPENSATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Apple Inc. | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | 2621 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 03, 2023 |
| 18166213 | ADAPTIVE TESSELLATION FOR EFFICIENT DYNAMIC MESH ENCODING, DECODING, PROCESSING, AND RENDERING | Apple Inc. | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | AI Ready | Feb 08, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial92.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Apple Inc. - Fletcher were allowed, across 4,349 applications in USPTO records.
3.40 office actions per allowed application on average.
58 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 51 examiners in 40 art units.
