Apple Inc. Patent Applications Rejected
263 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.
- 2022-05-17: Application 17746879; Invention Electronic Devices with Low-Reflectance Coatings; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision.
- 2022-05-16: Application 17663547; Invention QUASI-PLANAR TRANSFORMER CONSTRUCTION; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action.
- 2022-05-12: Application 17743030; Invention METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SOUND PROCESSING FOR A SYNTHESIZED REALITY SETTING; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Expressly Abandoned -- During Examination.
- 2022-05-11: Application 17742273; Invention USER INTERFACES FOR MANAGING ACCESSORIES; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action.
| Filed | Application | Invention | Applicant | Status | Published as | Inventor name | Inventor country | Examiner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-17 | 17746879 | Electronic Devices with Low-Reflectance Coatings | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20240045101A1 | Peter J Guest Ivan S Maric Cole Snider Ming Kun Shi David Carnahan Thomas T Morgan | United States United States United States United States United States United States | LAU, EDMOND C |
| 2022-05-16 | 17663547 | QUASI-PLANAR TRANSFORMER CONSTRUCTION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230368962A1 | Vijay G. Phadke Prudhvi Mohan Maddineni Balal Khan | United States United States United States | TRINH, MINH N |
| 2022-05-12 | 17743030 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SOUND PROCESSING FOR A SYNTHESIZED REALITY SETTING | Apple Inc. | Expressly Abandoned -- During Examination | Avi Bar-Zeev | United States | HOUSE, KIMBERLY ANN | |
| 2022-05-11 | 17742273 | USER INTERFACES FOR MANAGING ACCESSORIES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220365667A1 | Taylor G. CARRIGAN Jeffrey D. TANNER | United States United States | REPSHER III, JOHN T |
| 2022-05-09 | 17739962 | CELL-TO-CELL BUSBAR FUSE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230092785A1 | Abraham Bruno Caulk Dylan Charles Erb Paul W. Firehammer | United States United States United States | JONES, OLIVIA ANN |
| 2022-05-09 | 17739901 | LAYERED CODING OF AUDIO WITH DISCRETE OBJECTS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220262373A1 | Dipanjan Sen Frank Baumgarte Juha O. Merimaa | United States United States United States | GANMAVO, KUASSI A |
| 2022-05-05 | 17737919 | IMAGE COMPOSITION WITH MULTIPLE BLEND MODES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220392123A1 | William J. THIMBLEBY Peder BLEKKEN | United States United States | WANG, JIN CHENG |
| 2022-05-04 | 17736959 | EFFICIENT EMBEDDING FOR ACOUSTIC MODELS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230360641A1 | Daniel C. KLINGLER Carlos M. AVENDANO Jonathan HUANG Miquel ESPI MARQUES | United States United States United States United States | KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD |
| 2022-04-29 | 17733600 | TRANSFERRING AN ACTIVE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20220256038A1 | Marc J. Krochmal John J. Iarocci Alex D. Sanciangco Patrick L. Coffman | United States United States United States United States | SHAH, ANTIM G |
| 2022-04-28 | 17732355 | DISPLAYING AND UPDATING A SET OF APPLICATION VIEWS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220263940A1 | Nathan DE VRIES Lee S. BROUGHTON Kevin Will CHEN Christopher Patrick FOSS Stephen O. LEMAY Christopher WILSON Eric Lance WILSON Giancarlo YERKES | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | NAZAR, AHAMED I |
| 2022-04-22 | 17660373 | RESIN COMPOSITION HAVING STRONG ADHESION TO A DIELECTRIC LAYER | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230067589A1 | Shigeto Kobori Avery P. Yuen Khadijeh Bayat Masato Kuwabara Nikhil D. Kalyankar | Japan United States United States Japan United States | NELSON, MICHAEL B |
| 2022-04-12 | 17658961 | System and Method for Improved Digital Asset Classification | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220382811A1 | Sabrine Rekik Alexa Rockwell Rohan Chandra Sowmya Gopalan Emma D. Clark Kevin Bessiere | United States United States United States United States United States United States | LE, MICHAEL |
| 2022-04-08 | 29834000 | DISPLAY SCREEN OR PORTION THEREOF WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | Imran CHAUDHRI Alan C. DYE Jonathan P. IVE Brian Andrew SCHMITT Christopher WILSON Eric Lance WILSON | United States United States United States United States United States United States | OTTE, JOHN M | |
| 2022-04-08 | 17716935 | Haptic Actuator Including Flexure Bearing | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee | US20220233951A1 | Arman Hajati Jere C. Harrison Jason C. Law Logan M. Ames | United States United States United States United States | TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN |
| 2022-04-08 | 17716080 | Thermal Control System | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220348057A1 | Scott Wujek John M. Kearney Kegan J. Connick Nils Fredrik Magnus Wallin | United States United States United States United States | CIRIC, LJILJANA V |
| 2022-04-07 | 17715543 | Infinite Canvas | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220229976A1 | Roger Rock Rosner Jay Christopher Capela Yaniv Gur Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer Matthew Ross Lehrian | United States United States United States United States United States | STORK, KYLE R |
| 2022-04-06 | 17714950 | Systems, Methods, and User Interfaces for Interacting with Multiple Application Views | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220326816A1 | Brandon M. Walkin Bryant A. Jow Shubham Kedia Stephen O. Lemay | United States United States United States United States | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R |
| 2022-04-06 | 17714752 | BATTERY CONFIGURATIONS WITH CORROSION BARRIER | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee | US20220336896A1 | Kyle Tse Susheel Teja Gogineni Shawn G. Fink Yanning Song | United States United States United States United States | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM |
| 2022-04-04 | 17713035 | PORTABLE DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR USING EMOJI CHARACTERS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220221985A1 | 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 |
| 2022-04-04 | 17712397 | CIRCUIT, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROXIMITY OF AN OBJECT | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220221611A1 | Mikko S. Komulainen Saku Lahti | Finland Finland | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER |
| 2022-04-04 | 17657939 | MUSIC NOW PLAYING USER INTERFACE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220334689A1 | Taylor G. CARRIGAN Joe HOWARD Joshua MC GLINN Jonathan LOCHHEAD Benjamin W. KEIGHRAN William M. BACHMAN Elbert D. CHEN Jeffrey L. ROBBIN Jennifer L. C. FOLSE Lynne KRESS Kory M. WESTERHOLD Monika E. GROMEK Policarpo Bonilla WOOD JR. | 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 | SUTEERAWONGSA, JARURAT |
| 2022-03-31 | 17710483 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CLIENT SIDE SEARCH RANKING IMPROVEMENTS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220365939A1 | John M. Hornkvist Anubhav Malhotra Rene Chan Stanley Hung | United States United States United States United States | DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED |
| 2022-03-30 | 17709243 | USER INTERFACE FOR A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE IN COMMUNICATION WITH A PHYSICAL KEYBOARD | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220222093A1 | Julian MISSIG Morgan WINER Jeffrey Traer BERNSTEIN | United States United States United States | SHALU, ZELALEM W |
| 2022-03-29 | 17657024 | Syndication of Secondary Digital Assets with Photo Library | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220382803A1 | Kalu O. Kalu Akarsh Simha Kevin Aujoulet Marcelo Lotif Araujo Rohan Chandra Pamela Chen Elisa Y. Cui Kamal Benkiran | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | JACOB, AJITH |
| 2022-03-28 | 17764378 | Method and Device for Generating a Map from a Photo Set | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220366656A1 | Ian M. Richter | United States | HARRISON, CHANTE E |
| 2022-03-25 | 17705186 | Systems, Devices, and Methods for Dynamically Providing User Interface Controls at a Touch-Sensitive Secondary Display | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220244900A1 | Jeffrey Traer Bernstein Duncan R. Kerr John B. Morrell Lawrence Y. Yang Eric Lance Wilson Adam S. Meyer | United States United States United States United States United States United States | NGUYEN, TUAN S |
| 2022-03-25 | 17704888 | CELLULOSE FIBER FOAM COMPOSITIONS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20220332486A1 | Yang XIANG Jun CAI John W. GLASS Jose M. TORRES Michael S. LONG Wayne H. COWAN Hseh Tjun Tereave LIM | United States China United States United States United States United States United States | YAGER, JAMES C |
| 2022-03-23 | 17701665 | MANAGING NOTIFICATIONS ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20220365791A1 | John L. BLATZ Pallavika RAMASWAMY Akshay AGGARWAL Anshuman BANSAL | United States United States United States United States | DAO, TUAN C. |
| 2022-03-21 | 17655644 | INTEGRATED STANDBY POWER SUPPLY | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230087705A1 | Chanwit Prasantanakorn Bharat K Patel | United States United States | CHAN, DANNY |
| 2022-03-17 | 17655357 | CONTENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220279250A1 | Blake SEELY Benjamin W. KEIGHRAN Christopher L. OKLOTA Guy PIEKARZ Sandip M. CHOKSHI | United States United States United States United States United States | LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N |
| 2022-03-17 | 17655343 | DUAL-FREQUENCY WIRELESS CHARGER MODULES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220407356A1 | Makiko Kawamura Brzezinski | United States | OMAR, AHMED H |
| 2022-03-17 | 17655329 | DUAL-FREQUENCY WIRELESS CHARGING SYSTEMS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220407355A1 | Makiko Kawamura Brzezinski Eric X. Zhou Brennan K. Vanden Hoek Saining Ren | United States United States United States New Zealand | NGO, BRIAN |
| 2022-03-14 | 17694251 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALING UP AN IMAGE OF AN ARTICLE DISPLAYED ON A SALES PROMOTION WEB PAGE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | Robert H. Baxley Jeffrey Tyson | United States United States | BASEHOAR, ADAM L | |
| 2022-03-14 | 17654637 | Method of Fine Pitch Hybrid Bonding with Dissimilar CTE Wafers and Resulting Structures | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220336405A1 | Saijin Liu Fang Ou Tongbi T. Jiang | United States United States United States | DAS, PINAKI |
| 2022-03-11 | 17693048 | USER INTERFACES WITH VARIABLE APPEARANCES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220289029A1 | Richard R. DELLINGER | United States | JIN, SELENA MENG |
| 2022-03-11 | 17692756 | Wireless Circuitry with Self-Calibrated Harmonic Rejection Mixers | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220200709A1 | Hongrui Wang Abbas Komijani Saihua Lin Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak | United States United States United States United States | LIAO, HSINCHUN |
| 2022-03-10 | 17691681 | ZERO TRANSITION ELECTRODE COATING | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220293899A1 | Daeshin Lee Joshua M. Chien Rajesh Kandibanda Mark E. Wilcox | United States United States United States United States | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON |
| 2022-03-07 | 17688421 | TEMPORAL SEGMENTATION | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220189128A1 | Ronald Vernon Ong Siy | United States | WANG, JIN CHENG |
| 2022-03-07 | 17687923 | ADHESIVE JOINT FEATURES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220356881A1 | Anthony Joseph Aiello | United States | LEE, GEOFFREY S |
| 2022-03-03 | 17653429 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL HAND-HELD DEVICE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220187870A1 | Steven P. HOTELLING | United States | GYAWALI, BIPIN |
| 2022-02-25 | 17681584 | CONDITION-BASED ACTIVATION OF A USER INTERFACE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230008229A1 | Kevin Will CHEN Christopher WILSON Lawrence Y. YANG Alan C. DYE Jonathan P. IVE | United States United States United States United States United States | BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA |
| 2022-02-24 | 17680109 | Electronic Devices Having Peripheral Display Regions | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee | US20220179265A1 | Tyler S. Bushnell Richard A. Davis Christopher M. Werner | United States United States United States | CHIEN, LUCY P |
| 2022-02-22 | 29827754 | DISPLAY SCREEN OR PORTION THEREOF WITH AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | Alan C. DYE Jonathan P. IVE Christopher WILSON | United States United States United States | OTTE, JOHN M | |
| 2022-02-22 | 17652062 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH ROTARY MAGNETIC LATCHES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee | US20230266800A1 | James T. HANDY Lucas R. COMPTON | United States United States | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D |
| 2022-02-18 | 17676073 | DOUBLE HELIX ACTUATOR WITH MAGNETIC SECTIONS HAVING ALTERNATING POLARITIES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230006528A1 | Jere C. Harrison Alex J. Speltz Xin Alice Wu | United States United States United States | ALMAWRI, MAGED M |
| 2022-02-18 | 17675834 | Electronic Devices With Backlit Partial Mirror Structures | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220341585A1 | Patrick R. Perry Jun Cheng Martin Melcher Shravan Bharadwaj Wanshan Li Scott M. Stryker | United States China France United States China United States | PEERCE, MATTHEW J |
| 2022-02-16 | 17673492 | ANNOUNCE NOTIFICATIONS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220366889A1 | Sirisha YERROJU David Matthew FISCHER Gagan A. GUPTA Zara LALJI Andrew William MALTA Zakrya MANDHRO Alexander Silvio MULLER Andrea Valentina SIMES | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | SHAH, PARAS D |
| 2022-02-15 | 17651074 | RADIO (NR) SHORT AND LONG DURATION PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PUCCH) DESIGN | APPLE INC. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220174663A1 | Joonyoung Cho Gang Xiong Hong He Lopamudra Kundu Wook Bong Lee | United States United States United States United States United States | WILLIAMS, ELTON S |
| 2022-02-11 | 17669929 | Magnetic Alignment Systems for Wireless Power Devices | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220311286A1 | Adam L. Schwartz | United States | OMAR, AHMED H |
| 2022-02-11 | 17650799 | Systems and Methods for Multiple Universal Subscriber Identity Module (MUSIM) Capability Signaling and Enhanced Features | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- After Examiner's Answer or Board of Appeals Decision | US20220264506A1 | Krisztian Kiss Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar Karthik Ramamurthy Nirlesh Koshta Shashanka Totadamane Ramappa Sridhar Prakasam Vijay Venkataraman Xiangpeng Jing | United States India India India India United States United States United States | CUMMING, WILLIAM D |
| 2022-02-09 | 17668290 | Single Track Optical Encoder | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20230251114A1 | David D. Dashevsky Christopher Gardiner Tingjun Xu | United States United States United States | PYO, KEVIN K |
| 2022-02-07 | 17665905 | SILICON ANODES WITH FUNCTIONAL COATINGS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220255070A1 | Kai Yan Tsuyonobu Hatazawa | United States Japan | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN |
| 2022-02-04 | 17592917 | Wearing Dependent Operation of Wearable Device | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220151560A1 | Sorin V. Dusan Daniel J. Culbert Todd K. Whitehurst | United States United States United States | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH |
| 2022-02-03 | 17592295 | TECHNIQUES FOR FIRMWARE UPDATES WITH ACCESSORIES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220229653A1 | Hung Q. Le Zaka Ur Rehman Ashraf Keith W. Rauenbuehler Christopher B. Zimmermann Keith R. Bisset Sivaramachandran Ganesan Wayne A. Lee Praveen Chegondi Patrick L. Coffman Peter N. Heerboth Pranika Seth | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H |
| 2022-02-01 | 17590810 | SECURE DATA CACHING FOR EDGE NETWORKS | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220329664A1 | Srinivas VEDULA Joel N. KERR Qihe WANG Yuehhsun LIN Ranjit DESAI | United States United States United States United States United States | CHEN, WUJI |
| 2022-01-26 | 17648962 | High Performance Synchronous Rectification in Discontinuous Current Mode Converters | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220149714A1 | Vijay Phadke | United States | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A |
| 2022-01-25 | 17584281 | USER INTERFACES FOR INDICATING AND/ | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220248101A1 | Erik Lindholm Christopher D. Carvey Drew R. Domm | United States United States United States | AYAD, MARIA S |
| 2022-01-24 | 17583131 | Variable Device Graphical User Interface | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220147243A1 | John O. Louch | United States | LEGGETT, ANDREA C. |
| 2022-01-24 | 17583075 | Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Messaging | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220179553A1 | Imran A. Chaudhri Freddy A. Anzures Richard R. Dellinger Chanaka G. Karunamuni Nicholas V. King Daamun Mohseni Hoan Pham Wan Si Wan Giancarlo Yerkes Darin B. Adler Bethany Bongiorno Justin N. Wood Roberto Garcia Soin Shedlosky | 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 United States | LU, HWEI-MIN |
| 2022-01-19 | 17578601 | INTENSITY AND CONTRAST CHANGE DETECTION CAPABLE PIXELS WITH SHARED PHOTODETECTOR | APPLE INC. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220141403A1 | Emanuele MANDELLI Andrew K. McMAHON Nikolai E. BOCK | United States United States United States | CUTLER, ALBERT H |
| 2022-01-18 | 17577802 | METHODS AND USER INTERFACES FOR VOICE-BASED CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220139396A1 | Jigar Vasant GADA Mosab Hatem ELAGHA | United States United States | KEATON, SHERROD L |
| 2022-01-14 | 17575793 | Tiling Display System | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220244901A1 | Yang Li Cheng Chen Jiaying Wu Kuan H. Lu Yi-Pai Huang Yung-Yu Hsu | United States United States United States United States United States United States | KIM, KEON NMN |
| 2022-01-05 | 17569384 | Organic Light-Emitting Diode Display with Single Anti-Node Optical Cavities | Apple Inc. | Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action | US20220271254A1 | Niva A. Ran Michelle C. Sherrott Steven J. Brewer Ping Kuen Daniel Tsang KiBeom Kim Hui Lu Siddharth Harikrishna Mohan | United States United States United States Taiwan United States United States United States | WARD, DAVID WILLIAM |