Technology area: Communications
11 pending office actions • 1 client • 11 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC - Buffalo handles Communications matters and has 11 pending office actions. The profile records 5328 career applications, linking the current workload to a substantial prosecution history.
Its resolved allowance rate is 85.87%, and the average number of office actions per allowance is 3.47. These figures support a review of both historical resolution outcomes and the prosecution activity generally associated with obtaining an allowance in the reported practice.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (9%) |
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (9%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TON, DAVID L | 1 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
| SELLERS, DANIEL R | 1 | 68.5% | +17.4% |
| HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 1 | 86.0% | +11.2% |
| LAO, LUNSEE | 1 | 75.8% | +15.8% |
| JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | 1 | 88.2% | +7.0% |
| VOGEL, JAY L. | 1 | 79.2% | +24.9% |
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 1 | 70.6% | +20.3% |
| FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 1 | 84.1% | +12.3% |
| MORSE, CASON HENSON | 1 | 66.7% | +3.3% |
| CHIN, VIVIAN C | 1 | 14.9% | +14.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 63d |
| 18970409 | INPUT SELECTION FOR WIND NOISE REDUCTION ON WEARABLE DEVICES | TON, DAVID L | — |
| 18948837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPACITIVE ON-HEAD DETECTION | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18465691 | ORIENTATION SENSOR AXIAL SELF-CALIBRATION | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 17d overdue |
| 18929855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING CAPACITIVE SENSING TO DEBOUNCE A MECHANICAL BUTTON | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18465691 | ORIENTATION SENSOR AXIAL SELF-CALIBRATION | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 17d overdue |
| 18777128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROADCASTING AUDIO | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 56d |
| 18771449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 63d |
| 18970409 | INPUT SELECTION FOR WIND NOISE REDUCTION ON WEARABLE DEVICES | TON, DAVID L | — |
| 18957016 | AUDIO DEVICE OPTIMIZATION WITH MICROPHONE CALIBRATION | SELLERS, DANIEL R | — |
| 18948837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPACITIVE ON-HEAD DETECTION | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
| 18947513 | LOCATION-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INITIATING WIRELESS DEVICE ACTION | LAO, LUNSEE | — |
| 18817495 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING TRANSMISSION OF WIRELESS DATA | VOGEL, JAY L. | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Bose | 11 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2695 | 2 |
| 2694 | 2 |
| 2692 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2478 | 1 |
| 2417 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970409 | INPUT SELECTION FOR WIND NOISE REDUCTION ON WEARABLE DEVICES | BOSE CORPORATION | TON, DAVID L | 2695 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18957016 | AUDIO DEVICE OPTIMIZATION WITH MICROPHONE CALIBRATION | BOSE CORPORATION | SELLERS, DANIEL R | 2694 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18948837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPACITIVE ON-HEAD DETECTION | BOSE CORPORATION | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18947513 | LOCATION-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INITIATING WIRELESS DEVICE ACTION | BOSE CORPORATION | LAO, LUNSEE | 2691 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18929855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING CAPACITIVE SENSING TO DEBOUNCE A MECHANICAL BUTTON | BOSE CORPORATION | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | 2831 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18817495 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING TRANSMISSION OF WIRELESS DATA | BOSE CORPORATION | VOGEL, JAY L. | 2478 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18777128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROADCASTING AUDIO | BOSE CORPORATION | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18771449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT | BOSE CORPORATION | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18542010 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING TEMPORAL OVERLAP BETWEEN DATA PACKETS OF BROADCAST STREAMS | BOSE CORPORATION | MORSE, CASON HENSON | 2417 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18465691 | ORIENTATION SENSOR AXIAL SELF-CALIBRATION | BOSE CORPORATION | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 2695 | §101 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18330720 | MULTIPLEXING APPLICATION CHANNELS ON ISOCHRONOUS STREAMS | BOSE CORPORATION | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial85.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Bond Schoeneck & King Pllc - Buffalo were allowed, across 5,328 applications in USPTO records.
3.47 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 11 examiners in 8 art units.
