Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aac Technologies (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's communication technologies are being reviewed in 2 main technical groups. This distribution of 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners ensures that no single individual is responsible for a majority of the company's current legal challenges.
JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner handling 1 action. The concentration in 2 distinct art units indicates that while the examiners are different, the technical classifications of the pending matters are grouped together. This may allow the applicant to reuse certain technical arguments across different applications within the same art unit. The presence of 2 distinct art units also suggests that the company's communications innovations fall into 2 primary categories of examination.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | 1 | 83.7% | +15.4% |
| WON, BUMSUK | 1 | 62.1% | +24.1% |
| NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 1 | 82.4% | +20.7% |
| COONEY, JOHN M | 1 | 62.8% | +21.1% |
| WORRELL, KEVIN | 1 | 12.5% | -3.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986754 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR VIRTUALIZING EXTERNAL VEHICLE SOUND AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522166 | SPEAKER | NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 70d |
| 18391619 | PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | WON, BUMSUK | — |
| 18327016 | SOUND-ABSORBING SHEET, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SPEAKER | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| 18324179 | THERMALLY-CONDUCTIVE AND SOUND-ABSORBING COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND SPEAKER | WORRELL, KEVIN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522166 | SPEAKER | NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 70d |
| 18986754 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR VIRTUALIZING EXTERNAL VEHICLE SOUND AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | — |
| 18391619 | PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | WON, BUMSUK | — |
| 18327016 | SOUND-ABSORBING SHEET, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SPEAKER | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18986754 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR VIRTUALIZING EXTERNAL VEHICLE SOUND AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18391619 | PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | WON, BUMSUK | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18522166 | SPEAKER | NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 2692 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18327016 | SOUND-ABSORBING SHEET, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SPEAKER | COONEY, JOHN M | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18324179 | THERMALLY-CONDUCTIVE AND SOUND-ABSORBING COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND SPEAKER | WORRELL, KEVIN | 1789 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
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