Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 2 clients • 12 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 80 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 1 | 82.4% | +14.1% |
| LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 1 | 88.4% | +5.4% |
| SCHWARTZ, DARREN B | 1 | 74.2% | +75.7% |
| MEI, XU | 1 | 85.3% | +6.0% |
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.7% | +22.2% |
| GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | 1 | 84.4% | +15.4% |
| BRINEY III, WALTER F | 1 | 65.4% | +5.2% |
| MAUNG, THOMAS H | 1 | 63.6% | +39.0% |
| NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 1 | 67.6% | +37.9% |
| GLASSER, DARA J | 1 | 57.9% | +54.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19346865 | IMMERSIVE AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 3d overdue |
| 19022968 | STORING GENERATED DIGITAL OBJECTS ON A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 34d |
| 18791140 | CONTENT RULES ENGINES FOR AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES | MEI, XU | 48d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311862 | Audio Content Search in a Media Playback System | GLASSER, DARA J | 120d overdue |
| 19346865 | IMMERSIVE AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 3d overdue |
| 18779949 | MEMBRANE UNIT FOR SPEAKER DEVICE | MOONEY, JAMES K | 8d |
| 18474961 | Cloud Queue Access Control | MAUNG, THOMAS H | 9d |
| 18654711 | Contextualization of Voice Inputs | GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | 16d |
| 18473761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY STORING MEDIA CONTENT ON PORTABLE PLAYBACK DEVICES | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 56d |
| 18968672 | AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, DARREN B | 77d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sonos | 11 |
| Mayht Holding B.V. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 3 |
| 2161 | 2 |
| 2695 | 2 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19346865 | IMMERSIVE AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | Sonos, Inc. | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19022968 | STORING GENERATED DIGITAL OBJECTS ON A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER | Sonos, Inc. | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18968672 | AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM | Sonos, Inc. | SCHWARTZ, DARREN B | 2435 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18791140 | CONTENT RULES ENGINES FOR AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES | Sonos, Inc. | MEI, XU | 2695 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18779949 | MEMBRANE UNIT FOR SPEAKER DEVICE | Mayht Holding B.V. | MOONEY, JAMES K | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18654711 | Contextualization of Voice Inputs | Sonos, Inc. | GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | 2656 | Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18411731 | Room-Informed Binaural Rendering | Sonos, Inc. | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §102 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18474961 | Cloud Queue Access Control | Sonos, Inc. | MAUNG, THOMAS H | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18473761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY STORING MEDIA CONTENT ON PORTABLE PLAYBACK DEVICES | Sonos, Inc. | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18311862 | Audio Content Search in a Media Playback System | Sonos, Inc. | GLASSER, DARA J | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 120d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 18184414 | MULTICHANNEL COMPRESSED AUDIO TRANSMISSION TO SATELLITE PLAYBACK DEVICES | Sonos, Inc. | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18066926 | Synchronized Audio Mixing | Sonos, Inc. | GAY, SONIA L | 2657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
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