Technology area: Communications
14 pending office actions • 1 client • 14 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
HoffmanWarnick-BOSE has 14 pending office actions in Communications. Its career record includes 10662 applications, placing the active communications docket within a broad historical prosecution base.
The resolved allowance rate is 87.11%, and allowed matters have averaged 2.94 office actions. The outcome and action measures provide distinct guidance for practitioners, covering resolved results and the examination activity associated with allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 5 (36%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NI, SUHAN | 1 | 86.7% | +13.9% |
| OJO, OYESOLA C | 1 | 82.9% | +10.8% |
| HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 1 | 71.7% | +28.9% |
| LEE, SHIN | 1 | 75.0% | +100.0% |
| KURR, JASON R | 1 | 75.7% | +20.4% |
| JOSHI, SUNITA | 1 | 81.2% | +6.0% |
| ZHU, QIN | 1 | 87.5% | +3.3% |
| FISCHER, MARK L | 1 | 68.1% | +27.9% |
| TESHALE, AKELAW | 1 | 82.1% | +16.0% |
| SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 1 | 85.0% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169326 | SEATBACK SPEAKERS | NI, SUHAN | — |
| 18988132 | Wearable Audio Device Placement Detection | JOSHI, SUNITA | — |
| 18915676 | Managing Characteristics of Active Noise Reduction | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371144 | Adaptive Interface in Active Noise Reduction (ANR) Headset | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 9d overdue |
| 19056048 | Open-Ear Headphone with Energy-Directing Nozzle | OJO, OYESOLA C | — |
| 19034930 | Visual Noise Indicator and Feedback | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | — |
| 19027307 | Audio Device with Machine Learning (ML) Based Content Detection | LEE, SHIN | — |
| 19013097 | OPEN-EAR HEADPHONE | KURR, JASON R | — |
| 18971140 | Road Noise Cancelation (RNC) with User Position Tracking | ZHU, QIN | — |
| 18385997 | DYNAMIC PORTABLE SPEAKER GROUPING | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169326 | SEATBACK SPEAKERS | NI, SUHAN | — |
| 19056048 | Open-Ear Headphone with Energy-Directing Nozzle | OJO, OYESOLA C | — |
| 19034930 | Visual Noise Indicator and Feedback | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | — |
| 19027307 | Audio Device with Machine Learning (ML) Based Content Detection | LEE, SHIN | — |
| 19013097 | OPEN-EAR HEADPHONE | KURR, JASON R | — |
| 18940945 | Headphone Headband with Integral Slide Lock | FISCHER, MARK L | — |
| 18915676 | Managing Characteristics of Active Noise Reduction | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Bose | 14 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2695 | 4 |
| 2691 | 3 |
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2647 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169326 | SEATBACK SPEAKERS | BOSE CORPORATION | NI, SUHAN | 2691 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19056048 | Open-Ear Headphone with Energy-Directing Nozzle | BOSE CORPORATION | OJO, OYESOLA C | 2695 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19034930 | Visual Noise Indicator and Feedback | BOSE CORPORATION | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 2647 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19027307 | Audio Device with Machine Learning (ML) Based Content Detection | BOSE CORPORATION | LEE, SHIN | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19013097 | OPEN-EAR HEADPHONE | BOSE CORPORATION | KURR, JASON R | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18988132 | Wearable Audio Device Placement Detection | BOSE CORPORATION | JOSHI, SUNITA | 2691 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18971140 | Road Noise Cancelation (RNC) with User Position Tracking | BOSE CORPORATION | ZHU, QIN | 2691 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18940945 | Headphone Headband with Integral Slide Lock | BOSE CORPORATION | FISCHER, MARK L | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18915676 | Managing Characteristics of Active Noise Reduction | BOSE CORPORATION | TESHALE, AKELAW | 2694 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18385997 | DYNAMIC PORTABLE SPEAKER GROUPING | BOSE CORPORATION | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 2693 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18370965 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH INTERNAL LIGHT CURING | BOSE CORPORATION | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18371144 | Adaptive Interface in Active Noise Reduction (ANR) Headset | BOSE CORPORATION | CHIN, VIVIAN C | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18266107 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR VIBROTACTILE AND/OR THERMAL NERVE STIMULATION | BOSE CORPORATION | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18031827 | Electroacoustic Transducer | BOSE CORPORATION | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial87.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Hoffmanwarnick-Bose were allowed, across 10,662 applications in USPTO records.
2.94 office actions per allowed application on average.
14 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 14 examiners in 8 art units.
