Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 4 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nieves IP Law Group, LLC has 6 pending office actions in Communications and 155 career applications. The profile reflects a contained active workload in a communications-focused practice.
The resolved allowance rate is 91.18%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.1. Resolved matters reached allowance in most of the record, while allowed matters generally involved multiple examination actions.
Practitioners should examine how communication-system claims were framed around technical relationships and functionality. The historical results provide context for prosecution planning, but the pending actions require separate analysis of the cited art and the amendments needed to preserve commercially useful coverage.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 3 (43%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 1 | 70.6% | +20.3% |
| ZHU, QIN | 1 | 87.5% | +3.3% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.5% | +19.8% |
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.5% | +21.7% |
| FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 1 | 84.1% | +12.3% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.5% | +45.4% |
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 37.9% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041828 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM, WIRELESS SPEAKER, AND GROUP JOINING METHOD FOR WIRELESS SPEAKER | ZHU, QIN | — |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019288 | System and Method for Providing Marketing Consent Synchronization Across Multiple Third Party SaaS Integrations | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
| 17176271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MANAGING REPUTATION OF ENTITIES AND INDUSTRIES | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 36d overdue |
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | — |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019288 | System and Method for Providing Marketing Consent Synchronization Across Multiple Third Party SaaS Integrations | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
| 17176271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MANAGING REPUTATION OF ENTITIES AND INDUSTRIES | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 36d overdue |
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | — |
| 18903481 | USER SPECIFIC AUDITORY PROFILES | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | — |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| D&M HOLDINGS INC. | 4 |
| Constant Contact Inc. | 1 |
| Sound United, LLC | 1 |
| RepTrak Holdings, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2654 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | D&M Holdings Inc. | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2654 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19041828 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM, WIRELESS SPEAKER, AND GROUP JOINING METHOD FOR WIRELESS SPEAKER | D&M Holdings Inc. | ZHU, QIN | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 | |
| 19019288 | System and Method for Providing Marketing Consent Synchronization Across Multiple Third Party SaaS Integrations | Constant Contact Inc. | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18903481 | USER SPECIFIC AUDITORY PROFILES | Sound United, LLC | MOONEY, JAMES K | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | D&M Holdings Inc. | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | D&M Holdings Inc. | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 17176271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MANAGING REPUTATION OF ENTITIES AND INDUSTRIES | Reptrak Holdings, Inc. | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial91.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nieves Ip Law Group, LLC were allowed, across 155 applications in USPTO records.
3.10 office actions per allowed application on average.
7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 7 examiners in 6 art units.
