Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 09, 2026

Alibaba Innovation Private Limited

11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 3 of 11 (27%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

5
Hard (45%)
6
Medium (55%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (27%)
§103 only5 (45%)
§102 only1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (18%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
9% of docket
7
Information Tech
64% of docket
1
Communications
9% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
1
Business / Other
9% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEHOVZ, OSCAR 1 64.2% +29.1%
LOTFI, KYLE M 1 64.1% +7.3%
DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN 1 1.7% +4.7%
DORVIL, RICHEMOND 1 33.3% +24.6%
WONG, TITUS 1 77.8% +20.1%
NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 1 81.7% +34.4%
VICARY, KEITH E 1 57.7% +41.2%
HUYNH, KIM T 1 82.3% +7.2%
CZEKAJ, DAVID J 1 49.2% -8.9%
FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 1 77.6% +11.8%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18810147 DATA MODELING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH
18645904 SYSTEM ON CHIP AND INTERRUPT ISOLATION METHOD HUYNH, KIM T

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18671202 VECTOR COMPUTATION APPARATUS HAVING A REGISTER UNIT, THREAD MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY, AND COMPUTATION CIRCUITRY VICARY, KEITH E 181d overdue
18812672 SWITCH, MEMORY SHARING METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WONG, TITUS 44d overdue
19157484 GRAPH QUERY METHOD WEHOVZ, OSCAR
18869022 System and Method for Edge-cloud Collaborative Recommendation, and Electronic Device DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN
18863616 Conference Record Processing Method, Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium DORVIL, RICHEMOND

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18671202 VECTOR COMPUTATION APPARATUS HAVING A REGISTER UNIT, THREAD MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY, AND COMPUTATION CIRCUITRY VICARY, KEITH E 181d overdue
18812672 SWITCH, MEMORY SHARING METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WONG, TITUS 44d overdue
18628086 OPTICAL FLOW-BASED MOTION REFINEMENT FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 5d
19157484 GRAPH QUERY METHOD WEHOVZ, OSCAR
18863616 Conference Record Processing Method, Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium DORVIL, RICHEMOND
18810147 DATA MODELING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2482 2
2161 1
3689 1
2658 1
2181 1
2183 1
2184 1
2400 1
1686 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18863616 Conference Record Processing Method, Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium DORVIL, RICHEMOND 2658 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 06, 2024
18812672 SWITCH, MEMORY SHARING METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WONG, TITUS 2181 §103§112 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Aug 22, 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
18645904 SYSTEM ON CHIP AND INTERRUPT ISOLATION METHOD HUYNH, KIM T 2184 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2024
18628723 METHODS FOR CONTEXT-BASED VIDEO CODING CZEKAJ, DAVID J 2400 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Apr 06, 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 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 03, 2022

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