Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 2 of 10 (20%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alibaba Innovation Private Limited is currently prosecuting 10 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical focuses within the USPTO. The company is interacting with 10 distinct examiners to resolve these matters, which suggests that each application is being handled by a different individual.
Oscar Wehovz is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 10 distinct examiners for 10 pending office actions, each examiner is currently handling only one matter for the company. This distribution suggests a broad exposure to different examination styles across the 6 distinct art units. Practitioners must be prepared for 10 different examiner perspectives while navigating the 10 pending office actions in the Computing & Software sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (30%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (10%) |
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 | 64.7% | +7.2% |
| DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 1 | 1.7% | +4.7% |
| NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH | 1 | 81.9% | +34.0% |
| VICARY, KEITH E | 1 | 57.7% | +40.3% |
| LINDLOF, JOHN M | 1 | 68.0% | +16.9% |
| LEE, ADAM | 1 | 84.1% | +61.0% |
| HUYNH, KIM T | 1 | 82.6% | +7.2% |
| FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 1 | 77.9% | +11.6% |
| STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18810147 | DATA MODELING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH | — |
| 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 4 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 18628086 | OPTICAL FLOW-BASED MOTION REFINEMENT | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 5d |
| 19157484 | GRAPH QUERY METHOD | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | — |
| 18810147 | DATA MODELING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH | — |
| 18667528 | RISC-V VECTOR EXTENTION CORE, PROCESSOR, AND SYSTEM ON CHIP | LINDLOF, JOHN M | — |
| 18667409 | TASK SCHEDULING UNIT, WAFER-SCALE CHIP, AND TASK SCHEDULING METHOD | LEE, ADAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2482 | 2 |
| 2183 | 2 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 3689 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 18810147 | DATA MODELING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 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 |
| 18667528 | RISC-V VECTOR EXTENTION CORE, PROCESSOR, AND SYSTEM ON CHIP | LINDLOF, JOHN M | 2183 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18667409 | TASK SCHEDULING UNIT, WAFER-SCALE CHIP, AND TASK SCHEDULING METHOD | LEE, ADAM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18645904 | SYSTEM ON CHIP AND INTERRUPT ISOLATION METHOD | HUYNH, KIM T | 2184 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18628086 | OPTICAL FLOW-BASED MOTION REFINEMENT | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 2482 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d | AI Ready | Apr 05, 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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