Technology area: Computing & Software
11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 1 of 11 (9%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alibaba Innovation Private Limited has 12 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These 12 pending office actions are assigned to 12 distinct examiners, indicating a high level of examiner diversity. The portfolio is spread across 10 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's software innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the USPTO.
WEHOVZ, OSCAR is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This confirms that the 12 pending office actions are distributed evenly among the 12 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that the company's prosecution success is not dependent on any single individual's tendencies or historical rejection patterns.
The 10 distinct art units involved indicate a broad technical scope within the Computing & Software field. With 12 pending office actions, the company must manage 12 different examiner relationships and 10 different art unit environments. Practitioners should be prepared for a variety of rejection types and prior art searches, as the 12 distinct examiners will each bring their own unique perspective to the 12 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 + other | 4 (36%) |
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 1 | 64.9% | +29.2% |
| LOTFI, KYLE M | 1 | 65.1% | +7.3% |
| DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | 1 | 65.5% | -8.9% |
| BARTLETT, WILLIAM P | 1 | 60.9% | +32.3% |
| THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L | 1 | 77.1% | +37.3% |
| DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 1 | 1.7% | +4.7% |
| VICARY, KEITH E | 1 | 57.9% | +40.1% |
| LEE, ADAM | 1 | 83.8% | +61.5% |
| LINDLOF, JOHN M | 1 | 68.0% | +16.7% |
| HUYNH, KIM T | 1 | 82.6% | +7.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667409 | TASK SCHEDULING UNIT, WAFER-SCALE CHIP, AND TASK SCHEDULING METHOD | LEE, ADAM | — |
| 18645904 | SYSTEM ON CHIP AND INTERRUPT ISOLATION METHOD | HUYNH, KIM T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18671202 | VECTOR COMPUTATION APPARATUS HAVING A REGISTER UNIT, THREAD MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY, AND COMPUTATION CIRCUITRY | VICARY, KEITH E | 181d overdue |
| 19157484 | GRAPH QUERY METHOD | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | — |
| 19108710 | Smart Question Answer Method, Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium | BARTLETT, WILLIAM P | — |
| 18997766 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD | THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L | — |
| 18869022 | System and Method for Edge-cloud Collaborative Recommendation, and Electronic Device | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | — |
| 17832503 | GENETIC TESTING METHOD, SIGNATURE EXTRACTION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18671202 | VECTOR COMPUTATION APPARATUS HAVING A REGISTER UNIT, THREAD MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY, AND COMPUTATION CIRCUITRY | VICARY, KEITH E | 181d overdue |
| 19157484 | GRAPH QUERY METHOD | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | — |
| 19108710 | Smart Question Answer Method, Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium | BARTLETT, WILLIAM P | — |
| 18997766 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD | THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L | — |
| 18667409 | TASK SCHEDULING UNIT, WAFER-SCALE CHIP, AND TASK SCHEDULING METHOD | LEE, ADAM | — |
| 18667528 | RISC-V VECTOR EXTENTION CORE, PROCESSOR, AND SYSTEM ON CHIP | LINDLOF, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2183 | 2 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 2198 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19157484 | GRAPH QUERY METHOD | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 2161 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19249298 | FUSION OF VIDEO PREDICTION MODES | LOTFI, KYLE M | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19082812 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING COMBINED INTER AND INTRA PREDICTION | DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19108710 | Smart Question Answer Method, Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium | BARTLETT, WILLIAM P | 2169 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 18997766 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD | THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L | 2656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18869022 | System and Method for Edge-cloud Collaborative Recommendation, and Electronic Device | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 3689 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18671202 | VECTOR COMPUTATION APPARATUS HAVING A REGISTER UNIT, THREAD MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY, AND COMPUTATION CIRCUITRY | VICARY, KEITH E | 2183 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 181d overdue | AI Ready | May 22, 2024 |
| 18667409 | TASK SCHEDULING UNIT, WAFER-SCALE CHIP, AND TASK SCHEDULING METHOD | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18667528 | RISC-V VECTOR EXTENTION CORE, PROCESSOR, AND SYSTEM ON CHIP | LINDLOF, JOHN M | 2183 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18645904 | SYSTEM ON CHIP AND INTERRUPT ISOLATION METHOD | HUYNH, KIM T | 2184 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 17832503 | GENETIC TESTING METHOD, SIGNATURE EXTRACTION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | 1686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAlibaba Innovation Private Limited has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 11 examiners.
Oscar Wehovz has the most, with 1 of Alibaba Innovation Private Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
