Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anova Applied Electronics, Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. The presence of 1 pending action suggests a focused interaction with the patent office for this specific portfolio. With 0 art units listed, the company's current filing is concentrated within a specific examination group. This centralized approach allows the legal team to focus on the procedural requirements of a single point of contact at the patent office.
CHOU, JIMMY is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This 1 action accounts for the entire pending workload of 1 office action. The alignment of 1 examiner with the pending action reflects a singular point of contact within the examination process. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored specifically to the feedback and requirements of CHOU, JIMMY. The outcome of the company's active case is entirely dependent on the review conducted by this identified examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526421 | EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR A COOKING APPLIANCE | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18526421 | EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR A COOKING APPLIANCE | CHOU, JIMMY | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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