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12 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 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 | 9 (75%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCORD, PAUL C | 3 | 69.2% | +26.1% |
| HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 1 | 65.3% | +18.3% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 74.8% | +16.4% |
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 1 | 70.2% | +20.2% |
| YOON, ERIC | 1 | 59.1% | +65.9% |
| SAINT CYR, LEONARD | 1 | 77.2% | +18.1% |
| JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 1 | 74.1% | +15.4% |
| WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 1 | 79.8% | +29.1% |
| MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | 1 | 29.7% | +34.8% |
| RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 1 | 57.2% | +70.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549543 | Off-LAN Experience for Portables | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18464848 | Multiple Media Playback Protocols for Synchronized Media Playback in Grouped Zones | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 85d overdue |
| 17113419 | Systems, Methods, Apparatus, and Articles of Manufacture to Provide Automatic Wireless Configuration | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 71d overdue |
| 18514882 | ASSOCIATING PLAYBACK DEVICES WITH PLAYBACK QUEUES | MCCORD, PAUL C | 26d overdue |
| 18766327 | Intelligent User Interfaces for Playback Devices | YOON, ERIC | 16d overdue |
| 18508060 | Networked Microphone Devices, Systems, and Methods of Localized Arbitration | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 16d overdue |
| 18982755 | Priority Media Content | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 15d overdue |
| 18745199 | Dynamic Bonding of Playback Devices | MCCORD, PAUL C | 5d |
| 18597873 | Systems and Methods for Calibrating a Playback Device | MCCORD, PAUL C | 6d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sonos | 12 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 4 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2174 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982755 | Priority Media Content | Sonos, Inc. | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 2482 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18800916 | Sound and Light Experiences | Sonos, Inc. | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2844 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18779850 | Content Mixing | Sonos, Inc. | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18766327 | Intelligent User Interfaces for Playback Devices | Sonos, Inc. | YOON, ERIC | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18745199 | Dynamic Bonding of Playback Devices | Sonos, Inc. | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18597873 | Systems and Methods for Calibrating a Playback Device | Sonos, Inc. | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18408495 | Delay Gating for Voice Arbitration | Sonos, Inc. | SAINT CYR, LEONARD | 2658 | §102 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18514882 | ASSOCIATING PLAYBACK DEVICES WITH PLAYBACK QUEUES | Sonos, Inc. | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18508060 | Networked Microphone Devices, Systems, and Methods of Localized Arbitration | Sonos, Inc. | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 2657 | Other | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18464848 | Multiple Media Playback Protocols for Synchronized Media Playback in Grouped Zones | Sonos, Inc. | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18549543 | Off-LAN Experience for Portables | Sonos, Inc. | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 17113419 | Systems, Methods, Apparatus, and Articles of Manufacture to Provide Automatic Wireless Configuration | Sonos, Inc. | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 2449 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2020 |
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