Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Bond Schoeneck & King Pllc - Buffalo

8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=5380 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.5%
Allowance Rate
n=5380
+0.56σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=5380
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=3057
-0.03σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=3057
1097 days
Time to Allowance
n=3057
+8.7pp
Interview Lift
n=5380
30.3%
RCE Rate
n=5380
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=5380

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

75.3%
§101 Overcome
n=291
77.3%
§102 Overcome
n=1492
78.3%
§103 Overcome
n=2142
81.6%
§112 Overcome
n=1622

Specialization & Scale

A61B, A61M, Y10T
Top CPC Subclasses
14%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=5380
9
Practitioners
n=5380
597.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=5380

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (25%)
6
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
4
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ABULABAN, ABDALLAH 1 69.8% +14.3%
TON, DAVID L 1 84.9% +12.1%
ZAIDI, IQBAL 1 90.4% +6.8%
FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 1 84.2% +12.1%
MORSE, CASON HENSON 1 63.6% +7.6%
TRAN, CON P 1 68.9% +23.7%
DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 1 100.0% +0.0%
RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL 1 73.9% +42.9%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18774133 SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING WIRELESS DATA PACKET RETRANSMISSION SCHEMES ZAIDI, IQBAL
18475430 COORDINATION BETWEEN MEDIA END DEVICES DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18771449 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 63d
19086519 AUDIO-BASED METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEVICE DISTANCE ABULABAN, ABDALLAH
18970409 INPUT SELECTION FOR WIND NOISE REDUCTION ON WEARABLE DEVICES TON, DAVID L
18495253 EARPHONES WITH ON-HEAD DETECTION TRAN, CON P
18330720 MULTIPLEXING APPLICATION CHANNELS ON ISOCHRONOUS STREAMS RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Bose 8

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36451
26921
24171
26951
26811
26941

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19086519 AUDIO-BASED METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEVICE DISTANCE BOSE CORPORATION ABULABAN, ABDALLAH 3645 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2025
18970409 INPUT SELECTION FOR WIND NOISE REDUCTION ON WEARABLE DEVICES BOSE CORPORATION TON, DAVID L §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18774133 SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING WIRELESS DATA PACKET RETRANSMISSION SCHEMES BOSE CORPORATION ZAIDI, IQBAL §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18771449 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE SOUND ENHANCEMENT BOSE CORPORATION FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH 2692 §102§103 Non-Final OA 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 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18495253 EARPHONES WITH ON-HEAD DETECTION BOSE CORPORATION TRAN, CON P 2695 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 26, 2023
18475430 COORDINATION BETWEEN MEDIA END DEVICES BOSE CORPORATION DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 2681 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 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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