Technology area: Communications
19 pending office actions • 3 clients • 18 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP has 18 pending office actions in Communications and 12,386 career applications. The profile combines a current response docket with a broad historical application record in the technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 83.09%, and the average is 3.78 office actions per allowance. The rate describes outcomes among resolved matters, while the action average indicates the recorded examination effort associated with matters reaching allowance.
For practitioners, these figures support distinct workload and performance reviews. The pending docket is relevant to near-term capacity, and the historical measures provide context for resolved cases. They do not identify claim scope, client mix, examiner practice, or the reasons individual actions were issued.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (16%) |
| §103 only | 13 (68%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOANG, PHI | 2 | 82.0% | +16.5% |
| LOWEN, NICHOLAS DANIEL | 1 | 64.7% | +61.4% |
| MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 1 | 86.6% | +13.0% |
| BROWN, SHEREE N | 1 | 65.6% | +26.5% |
| CHIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 85.5% | +11.5% |
| GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | 1 | 50.0% | +75.0% |
| TRAN, KIM THANH THI | 1 | 77.0% | +24.6% |
| ROBERTS, RACHEL L | 1 | 73.0% | +24.0% |
| CAREY, FORREST L | 1 | 56.6% | +55.3% |
| MA, MICHELLE HAU | 1 | 72.5% | +47.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655150 | SEMI-SUPERVISED STYLE TRANSFER | HOANG, PHI | 55d |
| 18990819 | PATH GUIDING USING NEURAL RADIANCE CACHING WITH RESAMPLED IMPORTANCE SAMPLING | CHIN, MICHELLE | — |
| 18642219 | VISUAL DUBBING OF AN AUDIOVISUAL SEQUENCE | HOANG, PHI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405511 | VULNERABILITY AND REMEDIATION VALIDATION AUTOMATION | MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN | 18d overdue |
| 19062221 | LOGICAL WIDTH-BASED PROMPT CONDITIONING FOR GENERATIVE AI AND LLM | LOWEN, NICHOLAS DANIEL | — |
| 19033346 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING A GENERALIZED PHYSICAL FACE MODEL | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
| 18976025 | PARAMETRIC LANDMARK DETECTION | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| 18906545 | JOINT IMAGE NORMALIZATION AND LANDMARK DETECTION | HERNANDEZ, ALEJANDRO | — |
| 18584733 | ATTRIBUTION OF GENERATIVE MODEL OUTPUTS | LANE, THOMAS BERNARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655150 | SEMI-SUPERVISED STYLE TRANSFER | HOANG, PHI | 55d |
| 19062221 | LOGICAL WIDTH-BASED PROMPT CONDITIONING FOR GENERATIVE AI AND LLM | LOWEN, NICHOLAS DANIEL | — |
| 19033346 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING A GENERALIZED PHYSICAL FACE MODEL | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
| 19019300 | NEURAL SHAPE DEFORMATION TRANSFER | BROWN, SHEREE N | — |
| 18990819 | PATH GUIDING USING NEURAL RADIANCE CACHING WITH RESAMPLED IMPORTANCE SAMPLING | CHIN, MICHELLE | — |
| 18976025 | PARAMETRIC LANDMARK DETECTION | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| 18951325 | RELIGHTABLE AND REANIMATABLE NEURAL HEADS | TRAN, KIM THANH THI | — |
| 18930769 | RESAMPLING IMAGES WITH DEEP DATA | ROBERTS, RACHEL L | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. | 14 |
| ETH Zurich | 4 |
| Disney | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2612 | 2 |
| 2611 | 2 |
| 2619 | 2 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062221 | LOGICAL WIDTH-BASED PROMPT CONDITIONING FOR GENERATIVE AI AND LLM | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | LOWEN, NICHOLAS DANIEL | 2653 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19033346 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING A GENERALIZED PHYSICAL FACE MODEL | ETH ZÜRICH | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 2612 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19019300 | NEURAL SHAPE DEFORMATION TRANSFER | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | BROWN, SHEREE N | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18990819 | PATH GUIDING USING NEURAL RADIANCE CACHING WITH RESAMPLED IMPORTANCE SAMPLING | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | CHIN, MICHELLE | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18976025 | PARAMETRIC LANDMARK DETECTION | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | 2611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18951325 | RELIGHTABLE AND REANIMATABLE NEURAL HEADS | ETH ZÜRICH | TRAN, KIM THANH THI | 2615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18930769 | RESAMPLING IMAGES WITH DEEP DATA | ETH ZÜRICH | ROBERTS, RACHEL L | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18911165 | ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE-ENABLED CYBERSECURITY THREAT ANALYSIS | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | CAREY, FORREST L | 2491 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18906555 | FLEXIBLE 3D LANDMARK DETECTION | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | MA, MICHELLE HAU | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18906545 | JOINT IMAGE NORMALIZATION AND LANDMARK DETECTION | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | HERNANDEZ, ALEJANDRO | 2661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18825987 | AUTOMATED COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY SCANNING SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED CODE REPOSITORIES | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | RASUL, MUHAMMAD HASHIR | 2492 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18780259 | ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED IMPLICIT SHAPE MODELS | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | SUN, HAI TAO | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18655150 | SEMI-SUPERVISED STYLE TRANSFER | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | HOANG, PHI | 2619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18642219 | VISUAL DUBBING OF AN AUDIOVISUAL SEQUENCE | ETH ZÜRICH | HOANG, PHI | 2619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18584733 | ATTRIBUTION OF GENERATIVE MODEL OUTPUTS | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | LANE, THOMAS BERNARD | 2142 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18405511 | VULNERABILITY AND REMEDIATION VALIDATION AUTOMATION | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN | 2496 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18505017 | FLEXIBLE LANDMARK DETECTION | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | THOMAS, SOUMYA | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18500976 | FLEXIBLE PARAMETERIZATION OF ARBITRARY DISPLAY SURFACES FOR IN-CAMERA VISUAL EFFECTS | Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18172201 | VIDEO REMASTERING VIA DEEP LEARNING | Disney Enterprises, Inc. | SATCHER, DION JOHN | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
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