Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Axell Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and the distinct art units. This distribution indicates a highly decentralized prosecution landscape where every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual in a different unit. The presence of the distinct art units suggests the company's innovations span various specialized sub-sectors within the broader technology area.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is CHEN, JOSHUA NMN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total volume of pending office actions is spread across the distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided, with each examiner handling their assigned action. This distribution means that the outcome of the pending office actions depends on the independent decisions of different examiners. Practitioners should be prepared to manage unique sets of examiner preferences and art unit guidelines to successfully advance the matters currently under review.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | 1 | 82.1% | +32.3% |
| POTRATZ, DANIEL B | 1 | 73.4% | +35.7% |
| NGUYEN, TRI T | 1 | 67.3% | +15.8% |
| VAUGHN, RYAN C | 1 | 61.5% | +18.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640947 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18540794 | ENCRYPTION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ENCRYPTION PROCESSING METHOD | POTRATZ, DANIEL B | — |
| 17116930 | INFERENCE APPARATUS, AND INFERENCE METHOD | NGUYEN, TRI T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640947 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | — |
| 18540794 | ENCRYPTION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ENCRYPTION PROCESSING METHOD | POTRATZ, DANIEL B | — |
| 17116930 | INFERENCE APPARATUS, AND INFERENCE METHOD | NGUYEN, TRI T | — |
| 17097926 | INFERENCE SYSTEM, INFERENCE DEVICE, AND INFERENCE METHOD | VAUGHN, RYAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2665 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2128 | 1 |
| 2125 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18640947 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | 2665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18540794 | ENCRYPTION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ENCRYPTION PROCESSING METHOD | POTRATZ, DANIEL B | 2491 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 17116930 | INFERENCE APPARATUS, AND INFERENCE METHOD | NGUYEN, TRI T | 2128 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2020 |
| 17097926 | INFERENCE SYSTEM, INFERENCE DEVICE, AND INFERENCE METHOD | VAUGHN, RYAN C | 2125 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2020 |
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