Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. is currently active in the Networking & Security technology area. The company has 1 pending office action under review at the patent office. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused approach to securing intellectual property in the networking domain.
SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner manages all current prosecution for the company. The outcome of the company's current patent strategy is therefore tied directly to the review conducted by this specific examiner.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner simplifies the administrative burden of the portfolio. Practitioners do not have to manage diverse examiner behaviors or varying art unit standards. This 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office in the Networking & Security sector, allowing for a concentrated legal effort.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 40.0% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18093096 | Time Calibration Method, Electronic Device and Storage Medium | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2419 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18093096 | Time Calibration Method, Electronic Device and Storage Medium | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 2419 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
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