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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 1 of 8 (12%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. is currently managing 8 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that while the technical focus remains within communications, the applications are spread across multiple examiners within a limited number of art units. The use of 4 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio touches on several different sub-specialties within the communications field, each with its own set of examiners.
The busiest examiner is SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that each examiner handles 1 action. This structure means that no single examiner holds a majority of the 8 pending office actions. Although the actions are concentrated within 4 distinct art units, the involvement of 8 different examiners provides a variety of perspectives on the company's innovations. This arrangement helps mitigate the risk of a single examiner's unfavorable view impacting the entire portfolio of 8 pending office actions.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 1 | 83.7% | +6.0% |
| SANKS, SCHYLER S | 1 | 72.8% | +16.0% |
| LEY, SALLY THI | 1 | 22.7% | +14.6% |
| SMITH, KEVIN LEE | 1 | 36.9% | +20.0% |
| TAT, BINH C | 1 | 87.3% | +14.2% |
| SHEN, QUN | 1 | 76.4% | +37.5% |
| ZHU, RICHARD Z | 1 | 69.3% | +15.7% |
| HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 1 | 68.1% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18499308 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A LAYOUT OF A JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAY | TAT, BINH C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523028 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING DECOHERENCE MODEL OF QUBIT AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18516031 | Method for Determining Fidelity of Qubit Gate in Quantum Chip, and Storage Medium | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| 18516115 | Method for Determining Fidelity of Qubit Gate in Quantum Processor, and Storage Medium | LEY, SALLY THI | — |
| 18508799 | QUBIT PROCESSING METHOD AND QUANTUM CIRCUIT | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18323641 | HUMAN-MACHINE DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 70d |
| 18516031 | Method for Determining Fidelity of Qubit Gate in Quantum Chip, and Storage Medium | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| 18516115 | Method for Determining Fidelity of Qubit Gate in Quantum Processor, and Storage Medium | LEY, SALLY THI | — |
| 18508799 | QUBIT PROCESSING METHOD AND QUANTUM CIRCUIT | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | — |
| 18499308 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A LAYOUT OF A JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAY | TAT, BINH C | — |
| 18220795 | CONDITIONAL VARIATIONAL AUTO-ENCODER-BASED ONLINE META-LEARNED IMAGE COMPRESSION | SHEN, QUN | — |
| 17993832 | FIRECOMMENDATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED PRIVACY-PRESERVING LEARNING | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2124 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18523028 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING DECOHERENCE MODEL OF QUBIT AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18516031 | Method for Determining Fidelity of Qubit Gate in Quantum Chip, and Storage Medium | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18516115 | Method for Determining Fidelity of Qubit Gate in Quantum Processor, and Storage Medium | LEY, SALLY THI | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18508799 | QUBIT PROCESSING METHOD AND QUANTUM CIRCUIT | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18499308 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A LAYOUT OF A JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAY | TAT, BINH C | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18220795 | CONDITIONAL VARIATIONAL AUTO-ENCODER-BASED ONLINE META-LEARNED IMAGE COMPRESSION | SHEN, QUN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18323641 | HUMAN-MACHINE DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | AI Ready | May 25, 2023 |
| 17993832 | FIRECOMMENDATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED PRIVACY-PRESERVING LEARNING | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 2124 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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