Technology area: Communications
7 pending office actions • 2 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 137 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP Am handles matters in Communications and records 11044 career applications. It has 8 pending office actions, indicating current prosecution activity within a broad application history.
The resolved allowance rate is 90.47%, while the average office actions per allowance is 3.62. These figures indicate favorable resolved outcomes alongside multiple examination interactions before allowance.
For communications applicants, the profile supports planning for detailed claim analysis and recurring office-action responses. The application total provides context for experience, while the allowance rate and action average separately address results and prosecution effort.
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.
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 (29%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROMANO, ASHLEY K | 1 | 78.6% | +7.9% |
| OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 1 | 77.3% | +19.2% |
| MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 1 | 43.5% | +31.1% |
| SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 1 | 78.5% | +21.6% |
| AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 1 | 85.9% | +13.1% |
| SHAH, PARAS D | 1 | 73.7% | +30.6% |
| TERRELL, EMILY C | 1 | 58.6% | +36.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18434291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING EMULATED DATASETS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674519 | NOISE CANCELLATION FOR OPEN MICROPHONE MODE | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 3d overdue |
| 18791215 | MOBILE MANIPULATION ROBOTIC SYSTEM | ROMANO, ASHLEY K | — |
| 18656086 | Providing Content on Multiple Devices | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | — |
| 18652614 | ROUTING NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMANDS TO THE APPROPRIATE APPLICATIONS | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674519 | NOISE CANCELLATION FOR OPEN MICROPHONE MODE | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 3d overdue |
| 18514376 | Architecture for a Hub Configured to Control a Second Device While a Connection to a Remote System is Unavailable | SHAH, PARAS D | 71d |
| 18656086 | Providing Content on Multiple Devices | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | — |
| 18652614 | ROUTING NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMANDS TO THE APPROPRIATE APPLICATIONS | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | — |
| 18434291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING EMULATED DATASETS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | — |
| 18007692 | AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS RELATED TO ACCOUNTS WITHIN A SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORK | TERRELL, EMILY C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Amazon | 6 |
| Rightbot Technologies, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2653 | 2 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791215 | MOBILE MANIPULATION ROBOTIC SYSTEM | Rightbot Technologies, Inc. | ROMANO, ASHLEY K | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18656086 | Providing Content on Multiple Devices | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 2653 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18674519 | NOISE CANCELLATION FOR OPEN MICROPHONE MODE | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 2654 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18652614 | ROUTING NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMANDS TO THE APPROPRIATE APPLICATIONS | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2659 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18434291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING EMULATED DATASETS | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18514376 | Architecture for a Hub Configured to Control a Second Device While a Connection to a Remote System is Unavailable | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | SHAH, PARAS D | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18007692 | AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS RELATED TO ACCOUNTS WITHIN A SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORK | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | TERRELL, EMILY C | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial90.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Eversheds Sutherland (Us) LLP Am were allowed, across 11,044 applications in USPTO records.
3.62 office actions per allowed application on average.
7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 7 examiners in 6 art units.
