Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
13 pending office actions • 1 client • 13 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Morgan Lewis and Bockius (PA)(Spotify AB) is a patent law firm specializing in Communications. The firm has handled 189 career applications and achieved a resolved allowance rate of 90.78 percent. Prosecution at the firm averages 2.86 office actions per allowance.
There are 11 pending office actions currently under management. The 2.86 average office actions per allowance indicates an efficient prosecution cycle in the Communications technology area. This data is derived from 189 career applications, providing a focused view of the firm's performance for this client portfolio.
A 90.78 percent allowance rate shows a strong track record of securing patent grants. Practitioners can expect a relatively direct path to allowance, as indicated by the 2.86 average office actions per allowance. The 11 pending office actions represent the firm's current active matters in the Communications sector.
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 (15%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 6 (46%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | 1 | 67.6% | +20.5% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.2% | +20.8% |
| MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | 1 | 78.8% | +18.4% |
| MORRISON, JAY A | 1 | 81.0% | +23.3% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.2% |
| MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 1 | 81.0% | +32.8% |
| MCCORD, PAUL C | 1 | 69.2% | +25.9% |
| ALAM, HOSAIN T | 1 | 65.5% | +16.3% |
| JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 1 | 74.2% | +15.6% |
| ISKENDER, ALVIN ALIK | 1 | 44.8% | +53.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 4d overdue |
| 19023186 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | MORRISON, JAY A | — |
| 18878265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING USING ADAPTIVE SOFT CLIPPING WITH LOOKAHEAD | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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 | — |
| 18165817 | Systems and Methods for Language Identification in Audio Content | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18174145 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND A METHOD OF TRAINING A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM | ISKENDER, ALVIN ALIK | 44d overdue |
| 18262242 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODIFYING SPEECH GENERATED BY A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESISER | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 11d overdue |
| 18805857 | AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION | MCCORD, PAUL C | 5d overdue |
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 4d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 19023186 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | MORRISON, JAY A | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Spotify AB | 13 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 2125 | 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 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 | |
| 19069056 | Systems and Methods for Real-time Media Content Selection | Spotify AB | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19024265 | VOICE FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE OF MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE | Spotify AB | MARLOW, ALEXANDER G | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 19023186 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | Spotify AB | MORRISON, JAY A | 2161 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18878265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING USING ADAPTIVE SOFT CLIPPING WITH LOOKAHEAD | Spotify AB | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 | |
| 18896678 | GROUP PLAYBACK SESSION MANAGEMENT | Spotify AB | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 2457 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18805857 | AUDIO SEGMENT RECOMMENDATION | Spotify AB | MCCORD, PAUL C | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18408251 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PLAYLISTS | Spotify AB | ALAM, HOSAIN T | 2156 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18262242 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODIFYING SPEECH GENERATED BY A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESISER | Spotify AB | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 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 |
| 18165817 | Systems and Methods for Language Identification in Audio Content | Spotify AB | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | 2659 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 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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