Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
58 pending office actions • 7 clients • 58 examiners • 36 art units • 3 of 58 (5%) have an AI response strategy ready
Foley IP Law, PLLC operates in the Communications technology area. The firm has a career total of 1373 applications. There are currently 42 pending office actions under management.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 86.75 percent. It takes an average of 3.1 office actions to reach an allowance. These figures indicate a solid track record in the communications sector, balancing a high success rate with a standard number of office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 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. 18 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 | 10 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 17 (29%) |
| §103 only | 16 (28%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (19%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 1 | 24.0% | +25.2% |
| VO, TUYEN KIM | 1 | 78.4% | +17.7% |
| JOHNSON, SONJI N | 1 | 74.7% | +21.0% |
| DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 1 | 1.7% | +4.7% |
| TISSOT, ADAM D | 1 | 79.3% | +21.5% |
| DELIGI, VANESSA LIMA | 1 | 56.4% | +37.0% |
| ALLEN, WILLIAM J | 1 | 62.5% | +32.8% |
| MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | 1 | 60.4% | +48.1% |
| KING, CURTIS J | 1 | 68.0% | +29.8% |
| BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 1 | 33.9% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18156632 | CONTINUOUS DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING FOR BIG DATA | CHOY, PAN G | 160d overdue |
| 17539271 | System and Method for Contextual Density Ratio-based Biasing of Sequence-to-Sequence Processing Systems | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | 4d overdue |
| 17666798 | Medical Intelligence System and Method | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 3d overdue |
| 18408594 | BAND REPLACEMENT TOOL | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 5d |
| 18506972 | MULTICHANNEL IN-CLUB ATTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR FEATURED ITEMS | VIG, NARESH | 9d |
| 18325790 | PERFORMING DYNAMIC SPARSE COMPUTATION ON DENSE COMPUTATION-EFFICIENT COMPUTING DEVICES | GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL | 22d |
| 18828898 | PERSONALIZED SHIPPING LABELS WITH CUSTOMIZABLE CONTENT | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 28d |
| 18429184 | PRE-ORDER CUSTOMER BIDDING | MISIASZEK, MICHAEL | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19316636 | ERROR CORRECTION USING COMBINATION RFID SIGNALS | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 14d |
| 18906162 | Untitled | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | — |
| 19388071 | ARCHWAY TRUSS DEVICE WITH INTERACTIVE EXIT LANES | VO, TUYEN KIM | — |
| 19274793 | DISTANCE MATRIX FOR DYNAMIC PATH SELECTION AND REDUCED TRANSIT TIME | TISSOT, ADAM D | — |
| 19261670 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAPPING AN INTERIOR SPACE OF A PRODUCT STORAGE FACILITY | DELIGI, VANESSA LIMA | — |
| 19261108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED SHOPPING | ALLEN, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19250905 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND LABELING IMAGES IN A RETAIL FACILITY | MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | — |
| 19228262 | MOVABLE BARRIER OPERATOR AND TRANSMITTER PAIRING OVER A NETWORK | KING, CURTIS J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Microsoft | 26 |
| Walmart | 18 |
| T-Mobile | 9 |
| THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC | 2 |
| The Dunya Project Inc. | 1 |
| Axon4D | 1 |
| OverVue Planning Systems Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 4 |
| 2876 | 2 |
| 2657 | 2 |
| 2193 | 2 |
| 2147 | 2 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 2465 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906162 | Untitled | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19388071 | ARCHWAY TRUSS DEVICE WITH INTERACTIVE EXIT LANES | Walmart Apollo, LLC | VO, TUYEN KIM | 2876 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19316636 | ERROR CORRECTION USING COMBINATION RFID SIGNALS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 2876 | DP | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19277798 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT RETRIEVAL | Walmart Apollo, LLC | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 | |
| 19274793 | DISTANCE MATRIX FOR DYNAMIC PATH SELECTION AND REDUCED TRANSIT TIME | Walmart Apollo, LLC | TISSOT, ADAM D | 3663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19261670 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAPPING AN INTERIOR SPACE OF A PRODUCT STORAGE FACILITY | Walmart Apollo, LLC | DELIGI, VANESSA LIMA | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 | |
| 19261108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED SHOPPING | Walmart Apollo, LLC | ALLEN, WILLIAM J | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 | |
| 19250905 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND LABELING IMAGES IN A RETAIL FACILITY | Walmart Apollo, LLC | MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19228262 | MOVABLE BARRIER OPERATOR AND TRANSMITTER PAIRING OVER A NETWORK | The Chamberlain Group LLC | KING, CURTIS J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 | |
| 19215727 | IN-SCOPE AND OUT-OF-SCOPE RFID-BASED ITEM MANAGEMENT | Walmart Apollo, LLC | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 | |
| 19171104 | VIRTUAL MEDICAL ASSISTANT METHODS AND APPARATUS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 | |
| 19051040 | CASE SEQUENCER AND BUFFER SYSTEM | Walmart Apollo, LLC | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 | |
| 19039876 | QUICK CONNECT CASE FOR AN ELECTRICALLY-POWERED SHELF MODULE | Walmart Apollo, LLC | HAWN, PATRICK D | 3631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18989636 | System and Method for Flowsheet Population | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KIM, JONATHAN C | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18990377 | ZERO-FRICTION EXIT EXPERIENCE VIA COMPUTER VISION | Walmart Apollo, LLC | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18987580 | MODULAR HEXAGONAL ENCLOSURE AND COUPLING APPARATUS THEREFOR | The Dunya Project Inc. | EVANS, EBONY E | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 | |
| 18970581 | SUBSCRIBER ANOMALY DETECTION AND SCORING USING RAN NETWORK DATA | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | PEZZLO, JOHN | 2465 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18957950 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MOVABLE BARRIER OPERATORS WITH UNPAIRED CONTROL DEVICES | The Chamberlain Group LLC | TRAN, THANG DUC | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18947306 | DETECTING DATA ANOMALIES USING RULES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Walmart Apollo, LLC | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18931001 | AUTOMATED AUDIENCE RESPONSE ESTIMATION AND PRESENTER FEEDBACK | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN | 2657 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18904076 | INTELLIGENT ACCESS TRAFFIC STEERING, SWITCHING, AND SPLITTING (ATSSS) | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | TACDIRAN, ANDRE GEE | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 | |
| 18900614 | DECLARATIVE DEPLOYMENT OF A SOFTWARE ARTIFACT | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NGUYEN, MONGBAO | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 | |
| 18887021 | PEER-TO-PEER SCHEDULING OF NETWORK SERVICE ACTIVITIES | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | PANNELL, MARK G | 2642 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18828898 | PERSONALIZED SHIPPING LABELS WITH CUSTOMIZABLE CONTENT | Walmart Apollo, LLC | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18845267 | FLOATING ROOF TANK MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHODS | Axon4D Corp. | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 | |
| 18791416 | PROACTIVELY MOVING USER EQUIPMENT TO PREFERRED CELLGROUPS | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | SHIVERS, ASHLEY L | 2477 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18778915 | MULTI-PHASE DISTRIBUTED TASK COORDINATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | WU, QING YUAN | 2199 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18769020 | POWERED TOOTHBRUSH AND BRUSH HEAD ASSEMBLIES THEREFOR | Walmart Apollo, LLC | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 | |
| 18764086 | VERIFICATION OF SIM PRESENCE AT REPRESENTED LOCATION | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 2453 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18757404 | REGION OF INTEREST PROMPT PROCESSING FOR LARGE MULTIMODAL MODELS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | CAUDLE, PENNY LOUISE | 2657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18668107 | COMPACTING CODE USING STRUCTURAL INFORMATION WITH REDUCED ERRORS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KANG, INSUN | 2193 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18665514 | PULL REQUEST RISK ASSESSMENT AND RISK REDUCTION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | VU, TUAN A | 2193 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18664276 | CELL CLUSTER INTERLEAVING FOR NETWORK SERVICE ACTIVITIES | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | JAIN, SWATI | 2649 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18651678 | AI ANNOTATED QUALITY GATING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HASAN, SYED HAROON | 2154 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18639913 | NLU TRAINING WITH USER CORRECTIONS TO ENGINE ANNOTATIONS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KANAAN, MAROUN P | 3687 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18599139 | OBJECT DATA STORAGE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK | 2665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18597901 | CREATING APPLICATIONS AND TEMPLATES BASED ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF INPUT CONTENT | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TSUI, WILSON W | 2172 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18431912 | PLURALISTIC SALIENT OBJECT DETECTION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ABDI, AMARA | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18429184 | PRE-ORDER CUSTOMER BIDDING | Walmart Apollo, LLC | MISIASZEK, MICHAEL | 3688 | §101 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18408594 | BAND REPLACEMENT TOOL | Walmart Apollo, LLC | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18399211 | CALL CONTEXT REQUEST PRIOR TO ANSWER | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | ZENATI, AMAL S | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18532871 | System and Method for Secure Speech Feature Extraction | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 2658 | DP | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18525665 | RANKING DATA RECORDS FOR AUTOMATIC MESSAGE GENERATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | JIANG, HAIMEI | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 | |
| 18506972 | MULTICHANNEL IN-CLUB ATTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR FEATURED ITEMS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | VIG, NARESH | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18482438 | System and Method for Task-dependent Safeguarding of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Output | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PENG, STEVEN | 2125 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18475193 | DETERMINING CELL TOWER POSITION USING FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS DEVICES | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | MANOHARAN, MUTHUSWAMY GANAPATHY | 2647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18325790 | PERFORMING DYNAMIC SPARSE COMPUTATION ON DENSE COMPUTATION-EFFICIENT COMPUTING DEVICES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL | 2147 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | AI Ready | May 30, 2023 |
| 18325629 | Transforming Customer Content Data to Anonymized System Metadata via k-Aggregation | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT | 2123 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18321561 | System and Method for Rendering Images | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18298478 | Real-Time, Context-Aware Resource Delivery for Enterprise Applications | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18296716 | System and Method for Token-based Transaction Processing | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PRESTON, JOHN O | 3693 | §101 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18129625 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREPARING AND OPTIMIZING A PROJECT PLAN | Overvue Planning Systems Inc. | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18164556 | PRE-TERMINATION HANDOVER IN EDGE PROCESSING | T-Mobile Usa, Inc. | BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES | 2419 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18156632 | CONTINUOUS DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING FOR BIG DATA | Walmart Apollo, LLC | CHOY, PAN G | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 160d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 17962040 | System and Method for Generating Synthetic Cohorts Using Generative Modeling | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SERROU, ABDELALI | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17942276 | System and Method for Watermarking Training Data for Machine Learning Models | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TRAN, DANIEL DUC | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17666798 | Medical Intelligence System and Method | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 3686 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 08, 2022 |
| 17539271 | System and Method for Contextual Density Ratio-based Biasing of Sequence-to-Sequence Processing Systems | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | 2122 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2021 |
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