Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Honigman Llp-Google

41 pending office actions • 1 client • 37 examiners • 14 art units • 8 of 41 (20%) have an AI response strategy ready • 106 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=5915 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.9%
Allowance Rate
n=5915
+0.60σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=5915
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=3987
-0.14σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=3987
1006 days
Time to Allowance
n=3987
+3.3pp
Interview Lift
n=5915
27.5%
RCE Rate
n=5915
2.6%
Appeal Rate
n=5915

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

78.2%
§101 Overcome
n=518
83.3%
§102 Overcome
n=1488
82.8%
§103 Overcome
n=2529
83.9%
§112 Overcome
n=1499

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G10L, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
20%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=5915
36
Practitioners
n=5915
164.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=5915

Portfolio Summary

41
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

15
Hard (37%)
22
Medium (54%)
4
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (5%)
§101 + other10 (24%)
§103 only21 (51%)
§102 only1 (2%)
Double-patenting only4 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
5% of docket
20
Communications
49% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
2% of docket
18
Business / Other
44% 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.

410 h
Manual time on pending OAs
82 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
144 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, SHREYANS A 3 88.6% +8.5%
LEE, JANGWOEN 2 84.9% +18.0%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2 77.1% +19.3%
VOGT, JACOB BUI 1 45.5% +100.0%
CHAWAN, VIJAY B 1 88.2% +11.4%
UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 1 78.0% +30.1%
ALMEIDA, CORY A 1 67.2% +22.6%
HOLDER, BRADLEY W 1 83.7% +62.5%
LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI 1 84.7% +48.0%
DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS 1 61.4% +33.0%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18889989 Untitled CHAWAN, VIJAY B
19076961 REMOTE ATTESTATION TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY AND SPLIT TRUST ENCRYPTION HOLDER, BRADLEY W
19035299 Digital Signal Processor-Based Continued Conversation LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI
18951572 Injecting Text in Self-Supervised Speech Pre-training PATEL, SHREYANS A
18886581 MULTILINGUAL AND CODE-SWITCHING ASR USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATED TEXT LEE, JANGWOEN
18796738 Variational Embedding Capacity in Expressive End-to-End Speech Synthesis PATEL, SHREYANS A

Hard Cases (15)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18797760 MULTILINGUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND CROSS-LANGUAGE VOICE CLONING PATEL, SHREYANS A 3d overdue
18776117 PROMOTING VOICE ACTIONS TO HOTWORDS SHAH, PARAS D 30d
18439630 USING TEXT-INJECTION TO RECOGNIZE SPEECH WITHOUT TRANSCRIPTION OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 30d
18890706 Untitled VOGT, JACOB BUI
19009839 SPEAKER DIARIZATION POST-PROCESSING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS
18966088 SYNTHESIS OF SPEECH FROM TEXT IN A VOICE OF A TARGET SPEAKER USING NEURAL NETWORKS AZAD, ABUL K
18954928 REAL TIME ON DEVICE VOICE CONVERTER FOR PORTABLE APPLICATIONS ZEVITZ, DANIELLE ELIZABETH
18954430 Acoustic Echo Cancellation For Digital Assistants Using Neural Echo Suppression and Multi-Microphone Noise Reduction LAO, LUNSEE

Interview Candidates (11)

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
19239036 Contextual Assistant Using Mouse Pointing or Touch Cues ALMEIDA, CORY A 1d overdue
18439630 USING TEXT-INJECTION TO RECOGNIZE SPEECH WITHOUT TRANSCRIPTION OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 30d
18890706 Untitled VOGT, JACOB BUI
18889989 Untitled CHAWAN, VIJAY B
19287979 STORAGE AND STRUCTURED SEARCH OF HISTORICAL SECURITY DATA UDDIN, MOHAMMED R
19076961 REMOTE ATTESTATION TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY AND SPLIT TRUST ENCRYPTION HOLDER, BRADLEY W
19035299 Digital Signal Processor-Based Continued Conversation LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI
19009839 SPEAKER DIARIZATION POST-PROCESSING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Google 41

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26534
26553
26543
26572
26562
26592
26581
26281
41001
26811

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18890706 Untitled Google LLC VOGT, JACOB BUI 2653 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending
18889989 Untitled Google LLC CHAWAN, VIJAY B 2658 §102 Non-Final OA Pending
19287979 STORAGE AND STRUCTURED SEARCH OF HISTORICAL SECURITY DATA Google LLC UDDIN, MOHAMMED R §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2025
19239036 Contextual Assistant Using Mouse Pointing or Touch Cues Google LLC ALMEIDA, CORY A 2628 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue AI Ready Jun 16, 2025
19076961 REMOTE ATTESTATION TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY AND SPLIT TRUST ENCRYPTION Google LLC HOLDER, BRADLEY W §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 11, 2025
19035299 Digital Signal Processor-Based Continued Conversation Google LLC LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2025
19009839 SPEAKER DIARIZATION POST-PROCESSING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 03, 2025
19006522 Voice Query Handling in an Environment with Multiple Users Google LLC SHAH, ANTIM G DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 31, 2024
18965193 Language Agnostic Multilingual End-To-End Streaming On-Device ASR System Google LLC ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2024
18966088 SYNTHESIS OF SPEECH FROM TEXT IN A VOICE OF A TARGET SPEAKER USING NEURAL NETWORKS Google LLC AZAD, ABUL K §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2024
18962686 USING NON-PARALLEL VOICE CONVERSION FOR SPEECH CONVERSION MODELS Google LLC LELAND III, EDWIN S DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2024
18954928 REAL TIME ON DEVICE VOICE CONVERTER FOR PORTABLE APPLICATIONS Google LLC ZEVITZ, DANIELLE ELIZABETH §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2024
18954430 Acoustic Echo Cancellation For Digital Assistants Using Neural Echo Suppression and Multi-Microphone Noise Reduction Google LLC LAO, LUNSEE §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 20, 2024
18953029 Large Language Model Response Conciseness for Spoken Conversation Google LLC LEE, JANGWOEN §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 19, 2024
18951572 Injecting Text in Self-Supervised Speech Pre-training Google LLC PATEL, SHREYANS A DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 18, 2024
18939827 USING TEXT CORRECTIONS TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF AN LLM Google LLC CAUDLE, PENNY LOUISE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18929102 HIERARCHICAL RECURRENT ADAPTERS FOR EFFICIENT MULTI-TASK ADAPTATION OF LARGE SPEECH MODELS Google LLC TRACY JR., EDWARD §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 28, 2024
18915058 EXTREMELY FAST UTTERANCES FOR MEASURING UNINTENDED MEMORIZATION IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION MODELS Google LLC VO, HUYEN X 4100 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2024
18896830 Mixture Model Attention for Flexible Streaming and Non-Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition Google LLC NEWAY, SAMUEL G 2657 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2024
18891045 WORD-LEVEL END-TO-END NEURAL SPEAKER DIARIZATION WITH AUXNET Google LLC SIDDO, IBRAHIM 2681 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18886581 MULTILINGUAL AND CODE-SWITCHING ASR USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATED TEXT Google LLC LEE, JANGWOEN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 16, 2024
18826743 Adapter Finetuning with Teacher Pseudo-Labeling for Tail Languages in Streaming Multilingual ASR Google LLC SINGH, SATWANT K 2653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18824716 CONTEXTUAL TAGGING AND BIASING OF GRAMMARS INSIDE WORD LATTICES Google LLC ROBERTS, SHAUN A 2655 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 04, 2024
18823644 DETERMINING DIALOG STATES FOR LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC GODBOLD, DOUGLAS 2655 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 03, 2024
18818382 PROVIDING ANSWERS TO VOICE QUERIES USING USER FEEDBACK Google LLC OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18815200 SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE MODELS Google LLC HANG, VU B 2654 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2024
18797760 MULTILINGUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND CROSS-LANGUAGE VOICE CLONING Google LLC PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §101§103 Final Rejection 3d overdue AI Ready Aug 08, 2024
18796738 Variational Embedding Capacity in Expressive End-to-End Speech Synthesis Google LLC PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2024
18776117 PROMOTING VOICE ACTIONS TO HOTWORDS Google LLC SHAH, PARAS D 2653 §101§103 Final Rejection 30d AI Ready Jul 17, 2024
18746997 SCRIPT EDITOR FOR ROUTINE CREATION Google LLC LYONS, ANDREW M 2191 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2024
18676743 Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Speech Content and Style Representation Google LLC SUBRAMANI, NANDINI 2656 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready May 29, 2024
18611628 CO-DISTILLATION FOR MIXING SERVER-BASED AND FEDERATED LEARNING Google LLC DWIVEDI, MAHESH H §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18439630 USING TEXT-INJECTION TO RECOGNIZE SPEECH WITHOUT TRANSCRIPTION Google LLC OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M 2653 §101§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
18542424 ADAPTIVE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK SELECTION TECHNIQUES Google LLC WERNER, MARSHALL L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18471937 Conversational Assistants For Emergency Responders Google LLC RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Final Rejection 22d AI Ready Sep 21, 2023
18459354 LEVERAGING INTERMEDIATE CHECKPOINTS TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF TRAINED DIFFERENTIALLY PRIVATE MODELS Google LLC SMITH, KEVIN LEE 2122 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 31, 2023
18362457 AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF PRONUNCIATION OF TEXT ENTITIES BASED ON PRIOR PREDICTION AND CORRECTION Google LLC BOGGS JR., JAMES 2657 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2023
18349945 Data Transformations to Create Canonical Training Data Sets Google LLC MACCAGNO, PIERRE L 3687 §101 Final Rejection AI Ready Jul 10, 2023
18188524 END-TO-END SPEECH CONVERSION Google LLC SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 2654 §103Other Non-Final OA 84d Pending Mar 23, 2023
17932953 Deliberation of Streaming RNN-Transducer by Non-Autoregressive Decoding Google LLC WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN 2655 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 16, 2022

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