Apple Inc. Patent Applications Rejected
58 applications abandoned without a patent; the status gives the reason, newest filing first, as the USPTO Open Data Portal records them; the company is the first-named applicant. The application number opens the full record at Patent Center.
- 2019-12-16: Application 16716169; Invention Method for Representing Virtual Information in a Real Environment; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action.
- 2019-09-23: Application 29706711; Invention DISPLAY SCREEN OR PORTION THEREOF WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action.
- 2019-06-10: Application 29694374; Invention DISPLAY SCREEN OR PORTION THEREOF WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action.
- 2019-05-14: Application 16349963; Invention COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR UNLICENSED INTERNET OF THINGS (U-IOT); Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action.
| Filed | Application | Invention | Applicant | Status | Published as | Inventor name | Inventor country | Examiner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-16 | 16716169 | Method for Representing Virtual Information in a Real Environment | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200193712A1 | Peter Meier Frank A. Angermann | United States Germany | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA |
| 2019-09-23 | 29706711 | DISPLAY SCREEN OR PORTION THEREOF WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | Bas ORDING | United States | TUNG, MELANIE H | |
| 2019-06-10 | 29694374 | DISPLAY SCREEN OR PORTION THEREOF WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | Marcel van OS | United States | CALABRESE, MARY ANN | |
| 2019-05-14 | 16349963 | COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR UNLICENSED INTERNET OF THINGS (U-IOT) | APPLE INC. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190288811A1 | Wenting Chang Huaning Niu Qiaoyang Ye Jeongho Jeon | China United States United States United States | OH, ANDREW CHUNG SUK |
| 2019-05-07 | 16405399 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE PASSCODE RECOMMENDATION USING ON-DEVICE INFORMATION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200104479A1 | Ritwik K. Kumar Eric D. Friedman | United States United States | ARYAL, AAYUSH |
| 2019-05-06 | 16403888 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR COMPOSING CGR FILES | Apple Inc. | Expressly Abandoned -- During Examination | Cameron J. Dunn Eric Steven Peyton Olivier Marie Jacques Pinon Etienne H. Guerard David John Addey Pau Sastre Miguel Michelle Chua Eric Thivierge | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | MA, TIZE | |
| 2019-05-06 | 16403858 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR PRESENTING CGR FILES | Apple Inc. | Expressly Abandoned -- During Examination | Tyler Casella David Lui Norman Nuo Wang Xiao Jin Yu | United States United States United States United States | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | |
| 2019-05-03 | 16403410 | MULTI-SCHEME TRANSACTION CREDENTIALS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190373457A1 | Yousuf H. VAID Christopher SHARP David T. HAGGERTY | United States United States United States | CHISM, STEVEN R |
| 2019-05-03 | 16403378 | Single-Handed Approach for Navigation of Application Tiles Using Panning and Zooming | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20190265855A1 | John SanGiovanni Daniel C. Robbins | United States United States | WONG, WILLIAM |
| 2019-05-03 | 16402480 | Interlace-Based Uplink Physical Channel Design for New Radio-Unlicensed (NR-U) | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190342874A1 | Lopamudra Kundu Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev Alexander Sirotkin Seunghee Han Debdeep Chatterjee Sergey Panteleev Hong He Gang Xiong Hwan-Joon Kwon Jeongho Jeon Jie Cui Sergey Sosnin Yi Guo Seau S. Lim Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr Bishwarup Mondal Alexei Davydov Yongjun Kwak Toufiqul Islam | United States Russian Federation Israel United States United States Russian Federation China United States United States United States United States Russian Federation China United Kingdom United States United States Russian Federation United States United States | PASIA, REDENTOR M |
| 2019-04-30 | 16399798 | IN-EAR SPEAKER HYBRID AUDIO TRANSPARENCY SYSTEM | Apple Inc. | Expressly Abandoned -- During Examination | Scott C. Grinker | United States | EDUN, MUHAMMAD N | |
| 2019-04-30 | 16399513 | INTELLIGENT SWAP FOR FATIGABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190370009A1 | Kartik R. Venkatraman Abhishek Bhowmick Lionel D. Desai | United States United States United States | LI, SIDNEY |
| 2019-04-30 | 16399503 | DYNAMIC SANDBOXING OF USER DATA | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Incomplete Application (Pre-examination) | Kelly B. Yancey Richard J. Cooper Richard L. Hagy Pierre-Olivier Martel David P. Remahl Jonathan A. Zdziarski | United States United States United States United States United States United States | ||
| 2019-04-30 | 16398505 | PRIMARY RESONANT FLYBACK CONVERTERS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190260282A1 | InHwan Oh Abby Cherian Manisha Pandya | United States United States United States | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL |
| 2019-04-26 | 16396456 | INTERLOCK FEATURES OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190254185A1 | Tyler B. CATER Benjamin J. POPE Scott A. MYERS Benjamin Shane BUSTLE Tseng-Mau YANG Adam J. BRINKMAN | United States United States United States United States Canada United States | WU, JAMES |
| 2019-04-25 | 16395126 | MULTI-WORD AUTOCORRECTION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190354580A1 | Christopher P. WILLMORE Nicholas K. JONG Stephen W. SWALES | United States United States United States | SMITH, BENJAMIN J |
| 2019-04-24 | 16393677 | Methods for Operating Wireless Electronic Devices in Coordinated Multipoint Transmission Networks | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190253107A1 | Sassan Ahmadi | United States | KIM, SUN JONG |
| 2019-04-23 | 16392263 | SUPPRESSION OF VOICE RESPONSE BY DEVICE RENDERING TRIGGER AUDIO | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190371324A1 | Richard M. Powell Kisun You Hywel Richards Kurt W. Piersol | United States United States United Kingdom United States | GAY, SONIA L |
| 2019-04-22 | 16391178 | Charging Technique for Series Cells | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200203960A1 | Robert J. Hoyt Glenn D. Henshaw Narendra S. Mehta Shawn G. Fink Suchitra Pari Yasen I. Yasenov | United States United States United States United States United States United States | MCDANIEL, TYNESE V |
| 2019-04-19 | 16389722 | SHARING USER-CONFIGURABLE GRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20190250813A1 | Eliza BLOCK Giovanni M. AGNOLI Aurelio GUZMAN Kevin LYNCH Christopher WILSON Eric Lance WILSON | United States United States United States United States United States United States | LUU, DAVID V |
| 2019-04-19 | 16389375 | POWER ADAPTERS FOR POWERING AND/ | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190260213A1 | Daniele G. De Iuliis Andrew Bert Hodge Jeffrey L. Robbin Stanley Carl Ng Eric W. Anderson Anthony M. Fadell | United States United States United States United States United States United States | CAVALLARI, DANIEL |
| 2019-04-17 | 16387452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON DEMAND VIDEO AND OTHER CONTENT RENTAL | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190297369A1 | Augustin J. FARRUGIA Jeffrey ROBBIN Hiro MITSUJI Mihailo DESPOTOVIC Colin MELDRUM | United States United States United States United States United States | SALCE, JASON P |
| 2019-04-15 | 16384738 | ADDRESSING A LOSS-METRIC MISMATCH WITH ADAPTIVE LOSS ALIGNMENT | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200327450A1 | Chen HUANG Joshua M. SUSSKIND Carlos GUESTRIN | United States United States United States | HOANG, MICHAEL H |
| 2019-04-12 | 16383360 | Systems and Methods for Optimizing Performance of Graph Operations | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee | US20190303406A1 | Haijie Gu Yucheng Low Carlos Guestrin | United States United States United States | GORTAYO, DANGELINO N |
| 2019-04-10 | 16380504 | DNN BASED PROCESSOR FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION AND DETECTION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200327887A1 | Sarmad Aziz Malik Charles P. Clark Devang K. Naik Srikanth Vishnubhotla | United States United States United States United States | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N |
| 2019-04-09 | 16379551 | Coherent Mixing Interference Based Sensors for Characterizing Movement of a Watch Crown | Apple Inc. | Expressly Abandoned -- During Publication Process | US20190317454A1 | Prashanth S. Holenarsipur Mark T. Winkler Mehmet Mutlu David D. Dashevsky | United States United States United States United States | LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A |
| 2019-04-08 | 16378306 | Identity Proxy for Access Control Systems | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20190236257A1 | Matthew E. Last Giovanni Gozzini Henry H. Yang | United States United States United States | MCCOY, RICHARD ANTHONY |
| 2019-04-08 | 16378302 | NETWORK-BASED DISTRIBUTION OF APPLICATION PRODUCTS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190236533A1 | Sam GHARABALLY Yoon Sub HWANG Mark MILLER Andrew WADYCKI | United States United States United States United States | HAQ, NAEEM U |
| 2019-04-05 | 16377092 | ESD PROTECTION IN A VERY SMALL FORM FACTOR CONSUMER ELECTRONIC PRODUCT | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Incomplete Application (Pre-examination) | Teodor DABOV Kyle YEATES Anthony MONTEVIRGEN | United States United States United States | ||
| 2019-04-02 | 16373616 | MULTIPHASE INTERLEAVED PULSE FREQUENCY MODULATION FOR A DC-DC CONVERTER | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190229622A1 | Michael Couleur Fabio Ongaro Nikola Jovanovic Frank Trautmann | Germany Germany Germany Germany | LEWIS, MONICA |
| 2019-04-01 | 16371465 | Control Data for Code Block Group-Based Retransmission | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190313382A1 | Haitong Sun Yuchul Kim Johnson O. Sebeni Wei Zeng Wei Zhang Dawei Zhang | United States United States United States United States United States United States | AJID, ABDELTIF |
| 2019-03-28 | 16368403 | ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT AWARE STREAM SELECTION FOR MULTI-STREAM SPEECH RECOGNITION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200312315A1 | Feipeng Li Mehrez Souden Joshua D. Atkins John Bridle Charles P. Clark Stephen H. Shum Sachin S. Kajarekar Haiying Xia Erik Marchi | United States United States United States United Kingdom United States United States United States United States United Kingdom | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K |
| 2019-03-28 | 16368396 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE OPERATION OF USER SPACE COMMUNICATION STACKS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190303562A1 | CAHYA ADIANSYAH MASPUTRA SANDEEP NAIR THOMAS FRANCIS PAULY DIETER WILFRED SIEGMUND WEI SHEN OLIVIER MARDINIAN DARRIN JEWELL | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | LIU, ZHE |
| 2019-03-28 | 16367702 | VIDEO RECORDING AND REPLAY | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190230400A1 | Marcel VAN OS Donald W. PITSCHEL Imran CHAUDHRI Nathan TAYLOR Kellie ALBERT | United States United States United States United States United States | JOHNSON-CALDERON, FRANK J |
| 2019-03-27 | 16365748 | Control and Detection of Average Phase Current in Switching DC-DC Power Converters | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190222122A1 | Jamie L. Langlinais Di Zhao | United States United States | TIKU, SISAY G |
| 2019-03-25 | 16363233 | Assisted Media Presentation | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190221200A1 | Christopher B. Fleizach Reginald Dean Hudson Eric Taylor Seymour | United States United States United States | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N |
| 2019-03-22 | 16362501 | DEDUCING FLOOR PLANS USING MODULAR WALL UNITS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200301378A1 | Travis McQueen Clark Della Silva Scott G. Johnston Wade Barnett Christopher Merrill Jay C. Couch | United States United States United States United States United States United States | HAMERSKI, BOLKO M |
| 2019-03-22 | 16362441 | INTERFACE FOR A VIRTUAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190220247A1 | Stephen O. LEMAY Alessandro Francesco SABATELLI Freddy Allen ANZURES Imran CHAUDHRI Scott FORSTALL Gregory NOVICK | United States United States United States United States United States United States | LUU, DAVID V |
| 2019-03-22 | 16362433 | THERMOPLASTIC FORMING METALLIC GLASS TEXTURES FROM GLASS MOLDS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190292643A1 | James A. Yurko Zechariah D. Feinberg | United States United States | WYSZOMIERSKI, GEORGE P |
| 2019-03-22 | 16362230 | Timer Activation for Dual SIM Dual Standby Devices | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200304984A1 | Muthukumaran Dhanapal Vijay Venkataraman Lakshmi N. Kavuri Srinivasan Nimmala Rangakrishna Nallandigal Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar Tsun Sang Cheong Rohit R. Matolia Yaoqi Yan Chaitanya R. Kaliki Navjot Thakral Ajinkya Satish Godbole | United States United States United States United States United States Singapore Hong Kong India China Singapore United States United States | CHOUDHURY, FAISAL |
| 2019-03-22 | 16362048 | AUDIO ADAPTATION TO ROOM | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190222931A1 | Adam E. Kriegel Afrooz Family Sean A. Ramprashad Sylvain J. Choisel | United States United States United States United States | PAUL, DISLER |
| 2019-03-19 | 16358453 | USER INTERFACE FOR A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE IN COMMUNICATION WITH A PHYSICAL KEYBOARD | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190213021A1 | Julian MISSIG Morgan WINER Jeffrey Traer BERNSTEIN | United States United States United States | SHALU, ZELALEM W |
| 2019-03-18 | 16357089 | Wireless Charging Alignment Systems | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190210480A1 | Jeffrey M. Alves Zaka Ullah Zahid Jennifer D. Pollock Derryk C. Davis Hunter H. Wu | United States United States United States United States United States | AMRANY, ADI |
| 2019-03-14 | 16353784 | Facilitating Restful Sleep Using Reminders | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190213060A1 | Roy J. Raymann Wren N. Dougherty Divya Nag Deborah M. Lambert Stephanie M. Greer Thomas R. Gruber | United States United States United States United States United States United States | TANK, ANDREW L |
| 2019-03-13 | 16352746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENSURING SEQUENTIAL PLAYBACK OF DIGITAL MEDIA | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190340334A1 | Aram LINDAHL Bryan J. JAMES | United States United States | GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C |
| 2019-03-13 | 16352745 | Electronic Devices With Ambient Light Sensor Systems | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20200294468A1 | Po-Chieh Hung Prashanth S. Holenarsipur Serhan O. Isikman | United States United States United States | CASAREZ, BENJAMIN X. |
| 2019-03-13 | 16352255 | BEAM INDICATION INFORMATION TRANSMISSION | APPLE INC. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190239093A1 | Yushu Zhang Alexei Davydov Debdeep Chatterjee Gang Xiong Guotong Wang | China Russian Federation United States United States China | O CONNOR, BRIAN T |
| 2019-03-11 | 16331991 | Vertical Emitters Integrated on Silicon Control Backplane | APPLE INC. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190363520A1 | Arnaud Laflaquiere Marc Drader | Singapore Canada | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A |
| 2019-03-11 | 16298272 | Depth Map Calculation in a Stereo Camera System | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190208125A1 | Claus Molgaard Thomas E. Bishop | United States United States | HAQUE, MD NAZMUL |
| 2019-03-06 | 16294653 | SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR MSG3 AND MSG4 IN EARLY DATA TRANSMISSION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee | US20190208411A1 | Bharat Shrestha Seau S. Lim Yi Guo | United States United Kingdom China | KING, JOHN B |
| 2019-03-05 | 16293348 | COMMON AND USER EQUIPMENT (UE)-SPECIFIC PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PUCCH) CONFIGURATION | APPLE INC. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190239286A1 | Wenting Chang Huaning Niu Jeongho Jeon Salvatore Talarico | China United States United States United States | FAYED, RASHA K |
| 2019-02-28 | 16289346 | Portable Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Using Emoji Characters While in a Locked Mode | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190199848A1 | Bradford Allen MOORE Bas ORDING Elizabeth Caroline CRANFILL Stephen J. CHICK Kenneth KOCIENDA | United States United States United States United States United States | ULRICH, NICHOLAS S |
| 2019-02-27 | 16287994 | Contextual Routing of Media Data | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190306054A1 | Deepak Iyer Thomas Alsina Edward T. Schmidt Vijay Sundaram Elena Leyfman David P. Saracino Johannes P. Schmidt Astrid Yi Adam A. Sonnanstine Jonathan A. Bennett Gregory R. Chapman Aparna S. Akella Shreyas Nandagudi Sreesha | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | HABTEMARIAM, MELAKU Y |
| 2019-02-26 | 16286433 | STATIC PATTERN ELECTROSTATIC HAPTIC ELECTRODES FOR VIRTUAL KEYBOARD | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190302889A1 | Mark A. Salada | United States | LAM, NELSON C |
| 2019-02-22 | 16327775 | SIGNALING TO SUPPORT REDUCED PROCESSING TIME | APPLE INC. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190215906A1 | Umesh Phuyal Hong He Youn Hyoung Heo | United States United States Korea, Republic Of | LOO, JUVENA W |
| 2019-02-22 | 16327399 | CHIP-ENHANCED BATTERY | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190200199A1 | Michael Faerber Ingolf Karls Yang Yang Miltiadis Filippou Camila Priale Olivares Maria Fresia Leonardo Gomes Baltar Kilian Roth | Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany | KIM, TAE W |
| 2019-02-14 | 16325601 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT FOR WIRELESS VIRTUAL-REALITY HEADSET | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190214709A1 | Yaniv Haim Frishman Tom Harel Yaniv Michaeli Raviv Weiss Yaron Kahana Sharon Talmor-Markovich Ulun Karacaoglu Atsuo Kuwahara Manish A. Hiranandani Jie Gao Dounia Baiya | Israel Israel Israel Israel United States Israel United States United States United States United States United States | PHAM, THAI N |
| 2019-02-05 | 16323475 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20190174423A1 | Yushu Zhang RongZhen Yang Yuan Zhu Gang Xiong Wenting Chang Guotong Wang Dae Won Lee Yongjun Kwak | China China China United States China China United States United States | SOROWAR, GOLAM |