Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Platinum Intellectual Property PC_SoundHound is a patent law firm focused on the Communications technology area. The firm has managed 50 career applications and maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 94.12. This success rate demonstrates the firm's effectiveness in securing patent protection for its clients' communication innovations, even with a smaller total application count. The data suggests a specialized practice that delivers results in this technical domain.
The firm currently has 5 pending office actions in its docket. On average, the firm receives 3.38 office actions per allowance. This metric indicates a prosecution process that often involves multiple rounds of interaction with the patent office. The firm's ability to maintain a high allowance rate despite these multiple rounds of examination suggests a persistent approach to overcoming examiner rejections and securing intellectual property rights for its clients. This persistence is a key element of the firm's prosecution strategy in the communications sector.
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 only | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| HANG, VU B | 1 | 74.7% | +17.1% |
| SERROU, ABDELALI | 1 | 74.4% | +29.6% |
| AGAHI, DARIOUSH | 1 | 84.0% | +30.3% |
| SARPONG, AKWASI | 1 | 68.2% | +28.4% |
| SIRJANI, FARIBA | 1 | 75.4% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771489 | SERVER SUPPORTED RECOGNITION OF WAKE PHRASES | AGAHI, DARIOUSH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783423 | AUTOMATIC LEARNING OF ENTITIES, WORDS, PRONUNCIATIONS, AND PARTS OF SPEECH | SERROU, ABDELALI | 16d |
| 19032434 | TOKEN CONFIDENCE SCORES FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18361791 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROACTIVE INTERACTION | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 15d |
| 18783423 | AUTOMATIC LEARNING OF ENTITIES, WORDS, PRONUNCIATIONS, AND PARTS OF SPEECH | SERROU, ABDELALI | 16d |
| 19032434 | TOKEN CONFIDENCE SCORES FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | — |
| 18928627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC MODEL CONDITIONING ON NON-PHONEME INFORMATION FEATURES | HANG, VU B | — |
| 18771489 | SERVER SUPPORTED RECOGNITION OF WAKE PHRASES | AGAHI, DARIOUSH | — |
| 18743562 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPTION WITH METADATA | SARPONG, AKWASI | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SoundHound | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 2 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19032434 | TOKEN CONFIDENCE SCORES FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | Soundhound AI Ip, Llc. | ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 | |
| 18928627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC MODEL CONDITIONING ON NON-PHONEME INFORMATION FEATURES | Soundhound AI Ip, Llc. | HANG, VU B | 2654 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18783423 | AUTOMATIC LEARNING OF ENTITIES, WORDS, PRONUNCIATIONS, AND PARTS OF SPEECH | Soundhound AI Ip, Llc. | SERROU, ABDELALI | 2659 | §101Other | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18771489 | SERVER SUPPORTED RECOGNITION OF WAKE PHRASES | Soundhound AI Ip, Llc. | AGAHI, DARIOUSH | 2656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18743562 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPTION WITH METADATA | Soundhound AI Ip, Llc. | SARPONG, AKWASI | 2681 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18361791 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROACTIVE INTERACTION | Soundhound, Inc. | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 2659 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial94.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Platinum Intellectual Property Pc_Soundhound were allowed, across 50 applications in USPTO records.
3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 6 examiners in 4 art units.