Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

F. Chau & Associates, LLC (Adobe)

36 pending office actions • 1 client • 35 examiners • 26 art units • 0 of 36 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 88 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

36
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 36 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

16
Overdue
2
Due this week
11
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 36 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (16)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (2)

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 (6%)
34
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (6%)
§103 only32 (89%)
§102 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting + other1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
36% of docket
18
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

360 h
Manual time on pending OAs
72 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
126 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DAGNEW, SABA 2 37.6% +17.7%
WANG, YUEHAN 1 83.1% +13.3%
BROWN, SHEREE N 1 65.2% +26.7%
GOCO, JOHN PATRICK 1
MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE 1 63.0% +22.3%
CHIN, MICHELLE 1 85.2% +11.5%
HOANG, SON T 1 83.4% +35.0%
SOMERS, MARC S 1 64.7% +34.5%
YANG, YI 1 71.2% +17.8%
PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A 1 83.5% +13.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18757641 SUBJECT-ACTION IMAGE GENERATION USING STEPWISE INFERENCE AND FREQUENCY GUIDANCE CHIN, MICHELLE 36d overdue
18817915 SELF ATTENTION REFERENCE FOR IMPROVED DIFFUSION PERSONALIZATION WANG, YUEHAN 16d overdue
18747630 NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERY FILTERING HOANG, SON T 12d
18637024 INTERMEDIATE NOISE RETRIEVAL FOR IMAGE GENERATION PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A 55d

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
18451590 DELIVERY AWARE AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION WHITE, DYLAN C 28d
18157854 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION AUGMENTATION PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 33d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18757641 SUBJECT-ACTION IMAGE GENERATION USING STEPWISE INFERENCE AND FREQUENCY GUIDANCE CHIN, MICHELLE 36d overdue
18817692 MODALITY SPECIFIC LEARNABLE ATTENTION FOR MULTI-CONDITIONED DIFFUSION MODELS BROWN, SHEREE N 19d overdue
18817915 SELF ATTENTION REFERENCE FOR IMPROVED DIFFUSION PERSONALIZATION WANG, YUEHAN 16d overdue
18477735 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL CONTENT GENERATION DAGNEW, SABA 5d
18747630 NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERY FILTERING HOANG, SON T 12d
18773274 PROMPT AUGMENTATION BASED ON ENTITY TAGGING MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE 14d
18675451 DOCUMENT-BASED PRESENTATION GENERATION SOMERS, MARC S 27d
18637024 INTERMEDIATE NOISE RETRIEVAL FOR IMAGE GENERATION PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A 55d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Adobe 36

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26175
26592
26142
26162
26152
36212
21782
26121
26111
21691

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18817915 SELF ATTENTION REFERENCE FOR IMPROVED DIFFUSION PERSONALIZATION Adobe Inc. WANG, YUEHAN 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2024
18817692 MODALITY SPECIFIC LEARNABLE ATTENTION FOR MULTI-CONDITIONED DIFFUSION MODELS Adobe Inc. BROWN, SHEREE N 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2024
18785914 SCORE BASED FINE-GRAINED CONTROL OF CONCEPT GENERATION Adobe Inc. GOCO, JOHN PATRICK 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2024
18773274 PROMPT AUGMENTATION BASED ON ENTITY TAGGING Adobe Inc. MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18757641 SUBJECT-ACTION IMAGE GENERATION USING STEPWISE INFERENCE AND FREQUENCY GUIDANCE Adobe Inc. CHIN, MICHELLE 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18747630 NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERY FILTERING Adobe Inc. HOANG, SON T 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 19, 2024
18675451 DOCUMENT-BASED PRESENTATION GENERATION Adobe Inc. SOMERS, MARC S 2159 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending May 28, 2024
18639301 ONE-STEP DIFFUSION WITH DISTRIBUTION MATCHING DISTILLATION Adobe Inc. YANG, YI 2616 DPOther Final Rejection 75d Pending Apr 18, 2024
18637024 INTERMEDIATE NOISE RETRIEVAL FOR IMAGE GENERATION Adobe Inc. PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18609625 CLUSTERING USERS ACCORDING TO CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG USER DATA Adobe Inc. GOLDBERG, IVAN R 3619 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Mar 19, 2024
18443590 UPSIDE-DOWN REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR IMAGE GENERATION MODELS Adobe Inc. FOSTER, THOMAS JOHN 2616 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18439157 LEARNING CONTINUOUS CONTROL FOR 3D-AWARE IMAGE GENERATION ON TEXT-TO-IMAGE DIFFUSION MODELS Adobe Inc. PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER 2617 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18432580 SKETCH TO IMAGE GENERATION USING CONTROL NETWORK Adobe Inc. LE, MICHAEL 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18482754 DATA EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS FROM UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENTS Adobe Inc. SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18482599 COLORIZATION OF IMAGES AND VECTOR GRAPHICS Adobe Inc. COCHRAN, BRIANNA RENAE 2615 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18477735 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL CONTENT GENERATION Adobe Inc. DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18477772 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEEDBACK-GUIDED CONTENT GENERATION Adobe Inc. DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18477670 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CLUSTERING USING MACHINE LEARNING Adobe Inc. LE, HUNG D 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18470778 TEXT-AUGMENTED OBJECT CENTRIC RELATIONSHIP DETECTION Adobe Inc. NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M 2675 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18452827 IMAGE RELIGHTING Adobe Inc. WANG, JIN CHENG 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
18451590 DELIVERY AWARE AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION Adobe Inc. WHITE, DYLAN C 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18332163 MULTI-ATTRIBUTE FACE EDITING Adobe Inc. BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN 2613 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18328950 EFFICIENT AUGMENTATION FOR MULTIMODAL MACHINE LEARNING Adobe Inc. BARNES JR, CARL E 2178 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18312246 ABSTRACT BACKGROUND GENERATION Adobe Inc. AHN, CHRISTINE YERA 2615 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 04, 2023
18300721 STRUCTURED DOCUMENT GENERATION FROM TEXT PROMPTS Adobe Inc. STORK, KYLE R 2128 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18178018 CONTEXTUAL MEDIA GENERATION Adobe Inc. GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
18178225 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING TRANSFERABILITY Adobe Inc. XIA, XUYANG 2143 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Mar 03, 2023
18168677 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT SIGNING Adobe Inc. BURKE, TIONNA M 2178 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18157854 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION AUGMENTATION Adobe Inc. PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §101 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jan 23, 2023
18057453 TEXT AND COLOR-GUIDED LAYOUT CONTROL WITH A DIFFUSION MODEL Adobe Inc. RICHER, AARON M 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 21, 2022
18051364 GENERATIVE GRAPH MODELING FRAMEWORK Adobe Inc. BAKER, EZRA JAMES 2126 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
18047335 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CORRECTION Adobe Inc. PHAM, JESSICA THUY 2121 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
17815448 CONFIDENCE EVALUATION MODEL FOR STRUCTURE PREDICTION TASKS Adobe Inc. ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O 2129 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Jul 27, 2022
17656263 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OUTAGE FORECASTING Adobe Inc. HUANG, YAO D 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2022
17651076 ACTION RECOGNITION USING COMPRESSED FRAME FEATURES Adobe Inc. PRINCE, JESSICA MARIE 2486 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2022
17319776 INTENT-INFORMED RECOMMENDATIONS USING CLUSTERS OF FEATURES WITH MACHINE LEARNING Adobe Inc. RAHMAN, IBRAHIM 2122 §103 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending May 13, 2021

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