Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
153 pending office actions • 21 clients • 145 examiners • 88 art units • 0 of 153 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Keller Preece PLLC operates within the Communications technology area, currently managing 115 pending office actions. This workload is part of a career history that includes 256 applications. The firm's experience with 256 applications provides a context for its current prosecution activities. The Communications sector involves technical requirements that the firm addresses in the 115 pending matters. Practitioners can use the career application count to gauge the firm's overall presence in the patent landscape. This historical data provides a baseline for evaluating current performance.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 86.9 percent. This success rate is achieved with an average of 2.9 office actions per allowance. For practitioners, this average indicates the typical frequency of examiner interaction. The resolved allowance rate of 86.9 percent reflects the firm's historical success in obtaining patent rights. These figures illustrate the firm's established prosecution patterns. The average of 2.9 suggests that the path to grant involves negotiation with the patent office. Understanding these metrics helps in setting expectations for the prosecution timeline.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 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. 30 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 | 23 (15%) |
| §101 + other | 47 (31%) |
| §103 only | 48 (31%) |
| §102 only | 4 (3%) |
| §112 only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 25 (16%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 3 | 23.2% | +34.4% |
| CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N | 2 | 28.1% | +42.7% |
| HOANG, HAU HAI | 2 | 78.3% | +13.4% |
| FEACHER, LORENA R | 2 | 28.5% | +32.3% |
| PARCHER, DANIEL W | 2 | 60.5% | +59.3% |
| BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 2 | 31.6% | +15.2% |
| PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN | 2 | 13.6% | +34.1% |
| FLORES, ROBERTO W | 1 | 49.8% | +14.1% |
| SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 1 | 57.9% | +38.4% |
| LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | 1 | 92.8% | +7.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19334627 | GENERATING AND POPULATING DATA-LINK TREES FROM RELATIONSHIP CLUSTERS | LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818373 | DYNAMIC OPTIMIZED REASSIGNMENT OF PROVIDERS AT A GEOHASH LEVEL | FEACHER, LORENA R | 51d overdue |
| 17658009 | GENERATION OF CELL-BASED PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMPTION THAT COMPRISE PROTEINS FROM EXOTIC, ENDANGERED, AND EXTINCT SPECIES | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 49d overdue |
| 18616784 | DETERMINING MATCHES USING DYNAMIC PROVIDER ELIGIBILITY MODEL | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 44d overdue |
| 19065698 | DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE GUIDED SELECTION OF NODES FOR ADDITION TO DATA TREES | GOFMAN, ALEX N | 23d overdue |
| 18164373 | GENERATING USER-SPECIFIC SYNTHETIC CONTENT UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING WITH USER CREATED CONTENT ITEMS | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 19d overdue |
| 17839387 | QUALITY SCORE CALIBRATION OF BASECALLING SYSTEMS | DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN | 16d overdue |
| 18415036 | GENERATING AND VISUALIZING COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVITY SCORES FOR VIDEO CALLS | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 15d overdue |
| 18001174 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING HIGHLIGHT SEGMENTS | MILLER, RONDE LEE | 11d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818373 | DYNAMIC OPTIMIZED REASSIGNMENT OF PROVIDERS AT A GEOHASH LEVEL | FEACHER, LORENA R | 51d overdue |
| 19189769 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT CONTROL IN A USER INTERFACE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE | HOANG, HAU HAI | 29d |
| 19470722 | AUTOMATIC GAZE ESTIMATION | FLORES, ROBERTO W | — |
| 19167738 | COMPUTATIONAL DRUG TARGET SELECTION | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — |
| 19286616 | GENERATING CONSOLIDATED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR DISPLAYING DIRECTIVES OF DEVICES OF A DYNAMIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N | — |
| 19205533 | WITHIN-CONTEXT SEMANTIC RELEVANCE INFERENCE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATED OUTPUT | HOANG, HAU HAI | — |
| 18906980 | UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO GENERATE OBFUSCATED SUMMARIES OF EMPLOYEE FEEDBACK DATA AND MODIFICATION SUGGESTIONS BASED ON THE EMPLOYEE FEEDBACK DATA | FEACHER, LORENA R | — |
| 18824151 | GENERATING CUSTOMIZED FOLLOW-UP SURVEY INQUIRIES BASED ON RESPONSE QUALITY IN REAL TIME UTILIZING A MULTIMODAL MODEL | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Dropbox | 32 |
| Adobe | 32 |
| Lyft | 21 |
| ILLUMINA, INC. | 20 |
| Ancestry.com | 9 |
| SAP | 9 |
| Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 |
| The Upside Group Inc. | 5 |
| NETFLIX, INC. | 4 |
| King's College London | 2 |
| Redwood Materials, Inc. | 2 |
| Ancestry.com DNA, LLC | 1 |
| Marqeta, Inc. | 1 |
| Optimal Industrial Technologies Limited | 1 |
| ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED | 1 |
| 3Dmorphic Pty Ltd. | 1 |
| The Glad Products Company | 1 |
| Emerled Pty Ltd. | 1 |
| Carbonenfo, Inc. | 1 |
| UPSIDE FOODS, INC. | 1 |
| NanoSpot.AI | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 9 |
| 1687 | 8 |
| 3625 | 7 |
| 1685 | 7 |
| 1686 | 5 |
| 2154 | 4 |
| 2659 | 4 |
| 2159 | 3 |
| 3628 | 3 |
| 3623 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19470722 | AUTOMATIC GAZE ESTIMATION | King'S College London | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19167738 | COMPUTATIONAL DRUG TARGET SELECTION | Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 3686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19334627 | GENERATING AND POPULATING DATA-LINK TREES FROM RELATIONSHIP CLUSTERS | Ancestry.com DNA, LLC | LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | 2166 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19325058 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT IN A GENEALOGY SYSTEM | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 2675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19304977 | DETERMINING RELATIONSHIPS OF HISTORICAL DATA RECORDS | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | ALMANI, MOHSEN | 2159 | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
| 19292764 | GENERATING A FIXED VALUE FOR A RECURRING VALUE LOCK ACROSS GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES OF COMPUTING DEVICES | Lyft, Inc. | KIRK, BRYAN J | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19289838 | GENERATING BUNDLED SETS FROM PREDETERMINED CARD PARAMETER CONFIGURATIONS UTILIZING MACHINE-LEARNING | Marqeta, Inc. | HOLLY, JOHN H | 3696 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19287330 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED THOUGHT FOR AGENTIC MODELS | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | BOWEN, RICHARD L | 2165 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19286616 | GENERATING CONSOLIDATED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR DISPLAYING DIRECTIVES OF DEVICES OF A DYNAMIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | Lyft, Inc. | CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N | 3623 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19286044 | UTILIZING MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS TO GENERATE IDENTIFIER EMBEDDINGS AND DETERMINE DIGITAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DIGITAL CONTENT ITEMS | Dropbox, Inc. | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19270917 | GENERATING AND PROVIDING CONTENT STACKS UTILIZING MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS | Dropbox, Inc. | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 2154 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19270223 | UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO SYNTHESIZE PERTURBATION DATA TO GENERATE PERTURBATION HEATMAP GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES | Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | TO, BAOQUOC N | 2154 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19268557 | PROVIDING EPHEMERAL-TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS IN REAL TIME FOR SHARING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATIONS | Lyft, Inc. | HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19254844 | PROVIDING DYNAMIC ALTERNATE LOCATION TRANSPORTATION MODES AND USER INTERFACES WITHIN MULTI-PICKUP-LOCATION AREA GEOFENCES | Lyft, Inc. | ULLAH, ARIF | 3623 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19244901 | DETERMINING WHETHER TO PLACE AN ADVERTISEMENT REQUESTING AN ADDRESS | Dropbox, Inc. | ELCHANTI, TAREK | 3621 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19242510 | PROVIDING INFORMATION TO USERS OF A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM USING AUGMENTED REALITY ELEMENTS | Lyft, Inc. | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 3665 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19236735 | GENERATING RESPONSES TO REAL-TIME USER EVENTS UTILIZING USER PROFILE ATTRIBUTES AND A USER'S JOURNEY STATE OF AN EXPERIENCE JOURNEY | Qualtrics, LLC | HARMON, COURTNEY N | 2159 | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19217725 | ANONYMIZING DIGITAL IMAGES UTILIZING A GENERATIVE NEURAL NETWORK | Adobe Inc. | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19206944 | MODIFYING DIGITAL IMAGES VIA MULTI-LAYERED SCENE COMPLETION FACILITATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Adobe Inc. | SHANKAR, VIJAY | 2624 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19205479 | MANAGING DIGITAL ASSETS STORED AS COMPONENTS AND PACKAGED FILES | Adobe Inc. | MINCEY, JERMAINE A | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205533 | WITHIN-CONTEXT SEMANTIC RELEVANCE INFERENCE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATED OUTPUT | Dropbox, Inc. | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205475 | DYNAMIC CONTEXTUAL GENERATION OF CREATIVE CONTENT FOR PRODUCT | Dropbox, Inc. | CIVAN, ETHAN D | 3688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205455 | UTILIZING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH TO IMPLEMENT A DIGITAL SURVEY SYSTEM | Qualtrics, LLC | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205503 | CREATING AN EFFECTIVE PRODUCT USING AN ATTRIBUTE SOLVER | Dropbox, Inc. | NGUYEN, THUY N | 3622 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19189769 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT CONTROL IN A USER INTERFACE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE | Dropbox, Inc. | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19178422 | USING GENERATIVE AI MODELS FOR CONTENT SEARCHING AND GENERATION OF CONFABULATED SEARCH RESULTS | Dropbox, Inc. | WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL | 2165 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19089960 | GENERATING COREFERENCE MATCHES FOR AN ENTITY UTILIZING A COMBINED LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | 2658 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19080290 | ARTIFICIAL REALITY FAMILY HISTORY EXPERIENCE | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | KETEMA, BENYAM | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19072233 | MODIFYING AND COLLABORATING WITH DIGITAL VIDEOS THROUGH INTERACTIONS WITH VIDEO TRANSCRIPTS | Dropbox, Inc. | ZHAO, DAQUAN | 2484 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19065698 | DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE GUIDED SELECTION OF NODES FOR ADDITION TO DATA TREES | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | GOFMAN, ALEX N | 2163 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106477 | PROCESS MONITORING | Optimal Industrial Technologies Limited | LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19055196 | UNIFIED PRESENTATION OF CROSS-PLATFORM CONTENT TO A USER VISITING A PLATFORM | Dropbox, Inc. | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 3622 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19035556 | GENERATING A DIGITAL VIDEO UTILIZING A SET OF ANCHOR TOKENS TO DENOISE NOISED TOKENS | Adobe Inc. | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19002476 | DEEP LEARNING-BASED VARIANT CLASSIFIER | Illumina Cambridge Limited | SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL | 2646 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 19000315 | UTILIZING LANGUAGE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR AUTONOMOUS EXECUTIONS OF COMPUTERIZED TECH-BIO EXPLORATION TOOLS | Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A | 2659 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18968403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SEGMENTING OBJECTS FROM IMAGES | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | MARIAM, DANIEL G | 2675 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18960593 | ALIGNING PROVIDER-DEVICE AXES WITH TRANSPORTATION-VEHICLE AXES TO GENERATE DRIVING-EVENT SCORES | Lyft, Inc. | WANG, KAI NMN | 3664 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18959280 | AI-Driven Generation of Video Content Meeting Professional Film Standards | Netflix, Inc. | YANG, YI | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18952858 | HANDWRITING RECOGNITION PIPELINES FOR GENEALOGICAL RECORDS | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | OSINSKI, MICHAEL S | 2674 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18946080 | AUGMENTING FUNCTIONALITY OF GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODELS USING A HYBRID ATTENTION METHOD | Adobe Inc. | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 2659 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18941647 | REFINING IMAGE MASKS WITH A MASK REFINEMENT NEURAL NETWORK TRAINED ON SIMULATED MASKS WITH POINT-SAMPLING LOSSES | Adobe Inc. | PERLMAN, DAVID S | 2673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18940029 | UTILIZING A MULTI-ENCODER MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE MODEL ARCHITECTURE TO ENHANCE READING ABILITY IN GENERATING QUERY RESPONSES FROM TEXTUAL CONTENT IN DIGITAL IMAGES | Adobe Inc. | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18940609 | ORCHESTRATING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO CREATE SAFE, ROBUST, PERSONALIZED, BRAND EXPERIENCES BETWEEN USERS AND AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENT | Qualtrics, LLC | GODBOLD, DOUGLAS | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18939990 | SUBCLUSTERING CONTENT ITEMS FOR ALLOCATING COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES ON A PER-SUBCLUSTER BASIS | Ancestry.com Operations Inc. | SUN, ANDREW NMN | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18933259 | GENERATING SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHIC IMAGES BOUND TO INSIGHT-BACKING DATA | Adobe Inc. | DU, HAIXIA | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18929363 | DETERMINING AND APPLYING ATTRIBUTE DEFINITIONS TO DIGITAL SURVEY DATA TO GENERATE SURVEY ANALYSES | Qualtrics, LLC | WALTON, CHESIREE A | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18925604 | SPATIALLY AWARE COLOR CONDITIONING FOR DIFFUSION NEURAL NETWORKS | Adobe Inc. | DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH | 2677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18924508 | GENERATING COLLAGE DIGITAL IMAGES BY COMBINING SCENE LAYOUTS AND PIXEL COLORS UTILIZING GENERATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS | Adobe Inc. | WU, YANNA | 2615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18916070 | GENERATING BLENDED TEXT OBJECTS THAT PRESERVE VISUAL TEXT OBJECT CHARACTERISTICS | Adobe Inc. | VU, KIEU D | 2171 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18912891 | SEGMENTING DIGITAL DESIGNS INTO LAYERS USING CUSTOM SEGMENTATION AND COLOR PROCESSING | Adobe Inc. | USSERY, CAIDEN ALEXANDER | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial86.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Keller Preece Pllc were allowed, across 256 applications in USPTO records.
2.88 office actions per allowed application on average.
153 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 21 clients, before 145 examiners in 88 art units.