Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nieves IP Law Group, LLC operates in the Communications technology area. The firm has managed 154 career applications and currently oversees 7 pending office actions. These figures indicate the firm's historical experience and its current level of engagement with the USPTO. This data provides a baseline for understanding the firm's presence in this sector.
The firm's resolved allowance rate is 90.91. On average, the firm receives 3.16 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use this average to estimate the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach a grant for applications in this portfolio. These metrics offer an overview of the firm's prosecution results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 3 (43%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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% | +20.2% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.2% | +20.8% |
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.5% | +22.1% |
| FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 1 | 84.1% | +12.3% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.3% | +45.8% |
| DIAZ, SABRINA | 1 | 73.8% | +22.9% |
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 38.3% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751825 | Loudspeaker System, Method and Apparatus for Absorbing Loudspeaker Acoustic Resonances | DIAZ, SABRINA | 49d overdue |
| 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751825 | Loudspeaker System, Method and Apparatus for Absorbing Loudspeaker Acoustic Resonances | DIAZ, SABRINA | 49d overdue |
| 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. | 3 |
| Constant Contact Inc. | 1 |
| Sound United, LLC | 1 |
| Masimo | 1 |
| RepTrak Holdings, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| 2692 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 18751825 | Loudspeaker System, Method and Apparatus for Absorbing Loudspeaker Acoustic Resonances | Polk Audio, LLC | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2693 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 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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