Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Avision Inc. holds 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. ZHENG, JACKY X is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The use of 4 different examiners for the pending actions suggests a variety of individual perspectives on the company's applications.
The concentration in 2 distinct art units indicates that the transportation-related filings are grouped into two specific technical categories. This requires managing multiple examiner relationships within a limited number of art unit frameworks. Practitioners should note that ZHENG, JACKY X is 1 of the examiners currently reviewing the company's work. With 4 pending office actions spread across 2 distinct art units, the applicant faces a mix of personnel diversity and technical focus. This structure requires a prosecution strategy that is consistent within each art unit while remaining flexible enough for the different examiners. Managing these separate relationships requires a highly organized approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHENG, JACKY X | 1 | 80.0% | +17.0% |
| MCLEAN, NEIL R | 1 | 79.9% | +10.3% |
| CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 1 | 80.6% | +13.7% |
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 61.5% | +28.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18787583 | SILENT ONE-WAY CLUTCH ASSEMBLY AND DOCUMENT SCANNER USING THE SAME | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 56d |
| 18904476 | DOCUMENT SCANNER WITH DYNAMIC ADJUSTING FUNCTION | ZHENG, JACKY X | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334824 | MEDIUM THICKNESS DETECTION DEVICE | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 8d overdue |
| 18795949 | SCANNER GENERATING SPLIT IMAGE FILES INCLUDING TRANSMITTING AND VISIBLE LIGHT INFORMATION | MCLEAN, NEIL R | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334824 | MEDIUM THICKNESS DETECTION DEVICE | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 8d overdue |
| 18787583 | SILENT ONE-WAY CLUTCH ASSEMBLY AND DOCUMENT SCANNER USING THE SAME | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 56d |
| 18904476 | DOCUMENT SCANNER WITH DYNAMIC ADJUSTING FUNCTION | ZHENG, JACKY X | — |
| 18795949 | SCANNER GENERATING SPLIT IMAGE FILES INCLUDING TRANSMITTING AND VISIBLE LIGHT INFORMATION | MCLEAN, NEIL R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18904476 | DOCUMENT SCANNER WITH DYNAMIC ADJUSTING FUNCTION | ZHENG, JACKY X | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18795949 | SCANNER GENERATING SPLIT IMAGE FILES INCLUDING TRANSMITTING AND VISIBLE LIGHT INFORMATION | MCLEAN, NEIL R | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18787583 | SILENT ONE-WAY CLUTCH ASSEMBLY AND DOCUMENT SCANNER USING THE SAME | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18334824 | MEDIUM THICKNESS DETECTION DEVICE | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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