Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, involving 3 distinct examiners. The distribution suggests a multi-channel prosecution strategy within its specific technology sector.
SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The presence of 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending actions indicates that each examiner is currently reviewing a unique matter for the applicant. This spread of work across multiple examiners and 2 distinct art units provides a varied range of examiner interactions for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (67%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C | 1 | 32.8% | +31.0% |
| MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J | 1 | 33.8% | +52.3% |
| LI, MENG | 1 | 86.3% | +20.2% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17963011 | CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS | SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C | 15d |
| 17669691 | CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS | MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17963011 | CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS | SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C | 15d |
| 17669691 | CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS | MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J | — |
| 17575163 | USER IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | LI, MENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 2 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17963011 | CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS | SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
| 17669691 | CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS | MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
| 17575163 | USER IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | LI, MENG | 2437 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2022 |
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