Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
ArcSoft Corporation Limited currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the current prosecution hurdles are located within a specific administrative channel. The presence of multiple actions under this examiner suggests that the company's current patenting strategy is highly focused on a particular set of technical issues.
The busiest examiner, STCLAIR, ANDREW D, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles the entire current workload of pending actions for the company. Prosecution strategy should focus on the specific preferences and prior actions of this examiner to resolve the outstanding matters. Practitioners can benefit from analyzing how this examiner handles similar cases within the Computing & Software field. Effectively addressing the feedback from this individual is necessary to advance the company's patent portfolio.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779152 | Heart Rate Estimation Method and Apparatus, and Electronic Device Applying Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 460d overdue |
| 17913847 | Method for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, Apparatus for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, and Electronic Device Using Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 444d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779152 | Heart Rate Estimation Method and Apparatus, and Electronic Device Applying Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 460d overdue |
| 17913847 | Method for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, Apparatus for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, and Electronic Device Using Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 444d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17913847 | Method for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, Apparatus for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, and Electronic Device Using Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 444d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17779152 | Heart Rate Estimation Method and Apparatus, and Electronic Device Applying Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 460d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
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