Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Honigman Llp-Google

15 pending office actions • 1 client • 14 examiners • 8 art units • 11 of 15 (73%) have an AI response strategy ready • 117 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (87%)
1
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (87%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
14
Communications
93% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, SHREYANS A 2 88.9% +7.7%
ALMEIDA, CORY A 1 67.1% +22.6%
CHAWAN, VIJAY B 1 88.1% +11.5%
SHAH, PARAS D 1 73.5% +30.8%
COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 1 75.9% +15.2%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 1 77.3% +17.6%
ZHU, RICHARD Z 1 69.3% +15.5%
YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 1 72.7% +16.1%
RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 1 19.0% -23.5%
LERNER, MARTIN 1 78.0% +13.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18797760 MULTILINGUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND CROSS-LANGUAGE VOICE CLONING PATEL, SHREYANS A 3d overdue
18658132 Language Model Prediction of API Call Invocations and Verbal Response PATEL, SHREYANS A 61d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18471937 Conversational Assistants For Emergency Responders RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 22d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18391781 LANGUAGE MODELS USING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODEL COMPONENTS ZHU, RICHARD Z 29d overdue
18493365 AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF PRONUNCIATION OF TEXT ENTITIES BASED ON CO-EMITTED SPEECH RECOGNITION PREDICTIONS YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 19d overdue
19239036 Contextual Assistant Using Mouse Pointing or Touch Cues ALMEIDA, CORY A 1d overdue
18307210 Securely Executing Voice Actions Using Contextual Signals LERNER, MARTIN 5d
18598523 CONNECTING DIFFERENT ASR APPLICATION DOMAINS WITH SPEAKER-TAGS COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 15d
18780309 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AND PROCESSING SPEECH SIGNALS CHAWAN, VIJAY B 20d
18776117 PROMOTING VOICE ACTIONS TO HOTWORDS SHAH, PARAS D 30d
18439630 USING TEXT-INJECTION TO RECOGNIZE SPEECH WITHOUT TRANSCRIPTION OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 30d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
GOOGLE LLC 15

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26583
26543
26592
26532
26552
26281
26721
21451

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19239036 Contextual Assistant Using Mouse Pointing or Touch Cues Google LLC ALMEIDA, CORY A 2628 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue AI Ready Jun 16, 2025
18797760 MULTILINGUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND CROSS-LANGUAGE VOICE CLONING Google LLC PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue AI Ready Aug 08, 2024
18780309 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AND PROCESSING SPEECH SIGNALS Google LLC CHAWAN, VIJAY B 2658 Other Non-Final OA 20d AI Ready Jul 22, 2024
18776117 PROMOTING VOICE ACTIONS TO HOTWORDS Google LLC SHAH, PARAS D 2653 §103 Final Rejection 30d AI Ready Jul 17, 2024
18658132 Language Model Prediction of API Call Invocations and Verbal Response Google LLC PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 61d AI Ready May 08, 2024
18598523 CONNECTING DIFFERENT ASR APPLICATION DOMAINS WITH SPEAKER-TAGS Google LLC COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Final Rejection 15d AI Ready Mar 07, 2024
18439630 USING TEXT-INJECTION TO RECOGNIZE SPEECH WITHOUT TRANSCRIPTION Google LLC OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 §103 Final Rejection 30d AI Ready Feb 12, 2024
18391781 LANGUAGE MODELS USING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODEL COMPONENTS Google LLC ZHU, RICHARD Z 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue AI Ready Dec 21, 2023
18493365 AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF PRONUNCIATION OF TEXT ENTITIES BASED ON CO-EMITTED SPEECH RECOGNITION PREDICTIONS Google LLC YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 2655 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18471937 Conversational Assistants For Emergency Responders Google LLC RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 22d AI Ready Sep 21, 2023
18307210 Securely Executing Voice Actions Using Contextual Signals Google LLC LERNER, MARTIN 2658 §112 Final Rejection 5d AI Ready Apr 26, 2023
18188524 END-TO-END SPEECH CONVERSION Google LLC SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Mar 23, 2023
18188632 Streaming End-to-end Multilingual Speech Recognition with Joint Language Identification Google LLC ISKENDER, ALVIN ALIK 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 23, 2023
18149255 Hotword-Based Speaker Recognition Google LLC ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A 2658 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue AI Ready Jan 03, 2023
17937825 Leveraging Public Data in Training Neural Networks with Private Mirror Descent Google LLC PAULA, CESAR B 2145 §103 Final Rejection 69d Pending Oct 04, 2022

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