Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
27 pending office actions • 4 clients • 26 examiners • 15 art units • 9 of 27 (33%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fernando & Partners, LLP has handled 1112 career applications within the Communications technology area. The firm boasts a resolved allowance rate of 93.04 percent, demonstrating expertise in securing patent rights for its clients. This success is reached with an average of 3.61 office actions per allowance, indicating a thorough approach to overcoming examiner objections.
There are 26 pending office actions currently being handled by the firm. This active docket is situated within a larger context of 1112 career applications. The 93.04 percent allowance rate serves as a strong indicator of the firm's effectiveness in the Communications sector. Meanwhile, the 3.61 average office actions per allowance provides a realistic expectation for the number of interactions required to achieve these results. These data points summarize the firm's established presence in the field.
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 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (19%) |
| §103 only | 13 (48%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2 | 63.0% | +18.4% |
| RIDER, JUSTIN W | 1 | 84.2% | +12.1% |
| HUNTER, MISHAWN N | 1 | 78.2% | +14.3% |
| CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 1 | 84.0% | +12.5% |
| LEE, MICHAEL | 1 | 79.6% | +10.0% |
| GE, JIN | 1 | 79.7% | +18.8% |
| MA, CALVIN | 1 | 76.0% | +13.1% |
| LE, JOHNNY TRAN | 1 | 55.6% | +16.7% |
| YEUNG, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.3% | +9.2% |
| CHNG, JOY POH AI | 1 | 60.6% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19306729 | Emulating a Mirror With a Lenticular Display | RIDER, JUSTIN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612941 | Foveated Anti-Aliasing | HOANG, PHI | 30d overdue |
| 18694354 | Object Manipulation in Graphical Environment | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 26d overdue |
| 19022868 | Spatiotemporal Smoothing for Improved Hand Tracking | YEUNG, MATTHEW | 34d |
| 19302348 | Device with Speaker and Image Sensor | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | — |
| 19295240 | CREATION AND USE OF VIRTUAL PLACES | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | — |
| 19275969 | Calibrating a Gaze Tracker | LEE, MICHAEL | — |
| 18989776 | PHARMACEUTICAL CONTENT GENERATION BASED ON USER TYPE | CHNG, JOY POH AI | — |
| 18812432 | Generating Adapted Virtual Content to Spatial Characteristics of a Physical Setting | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19063896 | HEURISTIC FOR HAND TRACKING CORRECTION MODES | MA, CALVIN | 38d overdue |
| 18694354 | Object Manipulation in Graphical Environment | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 26d overdue |
| 19306729 | Emulating a Mirror With a Lenticular Display | RIDER, JUSTIN W | — |
| 19302348 | Device with Speaker and Image Sensor | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | — |
| 19295240 | CREATION AND USE OF VIRTUAL PLACES | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | — |
| 19275969 | Calibrating a Gaze Tracker | LEE, MICHAEL | — |
| 19077050 | Method and Device for Multi-Camera Hole Filling | GE, JIN | — |
| 19048768 | MODIFYING DISPLAY OPERATING PARAMETERS BASED ON LIGHT SUPERPOSITION FROM A PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT | LE, JOHNNY TRAN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Apple | 24 |
| Pfaqutruma Research LLC | 1 |
| ACTO Technologies Inc. | 1 |
| Tectio Corp. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2629 | 2 |
| 2625 | 2 |
| 2171 | 2 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| 2147 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19306729 | Emulating a Mirror With a Lenticular Display | Apple Inc. | RIDER, JUSTIN W | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 | |
| 19302348 | Device with Speaker and Image Sensor | Apple Inc. | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 | |
| 19295240 | CREATION AND USE OF VIRTUAL PLACES | Pfaqutruma Research LLC | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 | |
| 19275969 | Calibrating a Gaze Tracker | Apple Inc. | LEE, MICHAEL | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 | |
| 19077050 | Method and Device for Multi-Camera Hole Filling | Apple Inc. | GE, JIN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 | |
| 19063896 | HEURISTIC FOR HAND TRACKING CORRECTION MODES | Apple Inc. | MA, CALVIN | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19048768 | MODIFYING DISPLAY OPERATING PARAMETERS BASED ON LIGHT SUPERPOSITION FROM A PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT | Apple Inc. | LE, JOHNNY TRAN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 | |
| 19022868 | Spatiotemporal Smoothing for Improved Hand Tracking | Apple Inc. | YEUNG, MATTHEW | 2625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18989776 | PHARMACEUTICAL CONTENT GENERATION BASED ON USER TYPE | Acto Technologies Inc. | CHNG, JOY POH AI | 3686 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18909154 | Obfuscating Location Data Associated with a Physical Environment | Apple Inc. | CARTER, AARON W | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 | |
| 18898256 | Dynamic Portals | Apple Inc. | SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18812432 | Generating Adapted Virtual Content to Spatial Characteristics of a Physical Setting | Apple Inc. | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18750769 | Displaying Representations of Environments | Apple Inc. | NADKARNI, SARVESH J | 2629 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18678972 | Detecting an Occlusion of an Image Sensor | Apple Inc. | HWANG, JINSU | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 | |
| 18670598 | Manipulating a Rig Based on an Interaction in a Physical Environment | Apple Inc. | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18669504 | Triggered Dimming and Undimming of a Head-Mountable Device | Apple Inc. | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | AI Ready | May 20, 2024 |
| 18664057 | Visual Indicator for Microphone Placement | Apple Inc. | MOONEY, JAMES K | 2695 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | AI Ready | May 14, 2024 |
| 18631393 | Method And Device For Managing Attention Accumulators | Apple Inc. | NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | AI Ready | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18612941 | Foveated Anti-Aliasing | Apple Inc. | HOANG, PHI | 2619 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18694354 | Object Manipulation in Graphical Environment | Apple Inc. | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | AI Ready | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18601554 | MONITORING DEVICE FOR PREDICTIVE FAULT DETECTION | Tectio Corp. | GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 | |
| 18286608 | Text Suggestion Based on Environmental Context | Apple Inc. | TILLERY, RASHAWN N | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | AI Ready | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18286522 | Warped Perspective Correction | Apple Inc. | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18369328 | Method and Device for Waking a Computing System | Apple Inc. | SCHNIREL, ANDREW B | 2625 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | AI Ready | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18274092 | Displaying a Contextualized Widget | Apple Inc. | BADAWI, ANGIE M | 2179 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18200542 | Method and Device for Presenting a Guided Stretching Session | Apple Inc. | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18123833 | Transposing Virtual Objects Between Viewing Arrangements | Apple Inc. | CHEN, YU | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | AI Ready | Mar 20, 2023 |
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