Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
14 pending office actions • 1 client • 14 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Morgan Lewis and Bockius (PA)(Spotify AB) has 12 pending office actions in Communications and 190 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 90.97%, with an average of 2.9 office actions per allowance.
The profile provides current docket information alongside a defined application history. The allowance rate records resolved outcomes, and the office-action average offers context about examination activity associated with allowances.
For practitioners, the figures support review of a client-specific communications practice across workload, historical outcomes, and prosecution interaction. They remain aggregate measures and do not explain the claim amendments or arguments used in particular matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 2 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (14%) |
| §103 only | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | 1 | 67.6% | +20.6% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.5% | +19.8% |
| MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | 1 | 79.1% | +17.8% |
| VO, HUYEN X | 1 | 83.4% | +19.9% |
| MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 1 | 81.1% | +32.3% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.3% |
| MCCORD, PAUL C | 1 | 69.3% | +25.9% |
| PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL | 1 | 58.8% | +30.5% |
| STARKS, WILBERT L | 1 | 74.7% | +3.3% |
| SHEN, SAMUEL | 1 | 43.3% | +21.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 4d overdue |
| 18882628 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED MEDIA PREVIEW | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19069056 | Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| 19024265 | VOICE FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE OF MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE | MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | — |
| 18916472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NON-NARRATIVE REGIONS OF TEXTS | VO, HUYEN X | — |
| 18760765 | Systems and Methods for Culturally-Informed Content Moderation | STARKS, WILBERT L | — |
| 18676244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINING SHARED PLAYBACK SESSIONS | SHEN, SAMUEL | — |
| 17860019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA DISCOVERY | DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805857 | AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION | MCCORD, PAUL C | 5d overdue |
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 4d overdue |
| 18791022 | Systems and Methods for Selecting a Set of Media Items Using a Diffusion Model | PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL | 14d |
| 19069056 | Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| 19241130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACES FOR MIXED MEDIA CONTENT TYPES | SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | — |
| 19024265 | VOICE FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE OF MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE | MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | — |
| 18916472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NON-NARRATIVE REGIONS OF TEXTS | VO, HUYEN X | — |
| 18676244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINING SHARED PLAYBACK SESSIONS | SHEN, SAMUEL | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Spotify AB | 14 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2658 | 2 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2122 | 1 |
| 2179 | 1 |
| 2132 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACES FOR MIXED MEDIA CONTENT TYPES | Spotify AB | SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | 2424 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19069056 | Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection | Spotify AB | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19024265 | VOICE FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE OF MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE | Spotify AB | MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | 2658 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18916472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NON-NARRATIVE REGIONS OF TEXTS | Spotify AB | VO, HUYEN X | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 | |
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | Spotify AB | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 2457 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18882628 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED MEDIA PREVIEW | Spotify AB | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18805857 | AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION | Spotify AB | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18791022 | Systems and Methods for Selecting a Set of Media Items Using a Diffusion Model | Spotify AB | PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL | 2169 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18760765 | Systems and Methods for Culturally-Informed Content Moderation | Spotify AB | STARKS, WILBERT L | 2122 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18676244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINING SHARED PLAYBACK SESSIONS | Spotify AB | SHEN, SAMUEL | 2179 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18408251 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | Spotify AB | ALAM, HOSAIN T | 2132 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18174145 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND A METHOD OF TRAINING A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM | Spotify AB | ISKENDER, ALVIN ALIK | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18063023 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Semantic Search of Audio Content | Spotify AB | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17860019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA DISCOVERY | Spotify AB | DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | 2125 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
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