Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BEIJING CO WHEELS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. currently has 5 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a varied technical focus within the communications sector. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, so each pending action is assigned to a unique individual. This distribution of actions and examiners means the company must navigate 5 different examination styles simultaneously.
The busiest examiner is KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This figure matches the workload of the other examiners, as the 5 pending actions are distributed evenly. Managing 5 pending actions across 3 art units requires the company to address different technical standards and examiner preferences within the Communications field. Because there is no examiner overlap, the company must handle 5 separate sets of feedback and procedural requirements. This structure necessitates a flexible prosecution strategy to ensure that the 5 distinct examiners receive consistent yet tailored arguments. The presence of 3 art units suggests that the 5 pending actions are categorized into a few specific technical sub-groups at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.2% |
| CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | 1 | 82.1% | +32.3% |
| QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 53.3% | +34.2% |
| VO, ERIC MINHSANG | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KURR, JASON R | 1 | 75.6% | +20.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721755 | MOBILE TERMINAL POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VO, ERIC MINHSANG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18616808 | IN-VEHICLE MICROPHONE AND VEHICLE | KURR, JASON R | 141d overdue |
| 19086305 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SOUND PLAYING, METHOD FOR PROCESSING SOUND DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
| 18847442 | IMAGE ASSOCIATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | — |
| 18724705 | MULTI-ECU SIMULATION TEST METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18616808 | IN-VEHICLE MICROPHONE AND VEHICLE | KURR, JASON R | 141d overdue |
| 18847442 | IMAGE ASSOCIATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | — |
| 18724705 | MULTI-ECU SIMULATION TEST METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2665 | 1 |
| 2644 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19086305 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SOUND PLAYING, METHOD FOR PROCESSING SOUND DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18847442 | IMAGE ASSOCIATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | 2665 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18724705 | MULTI-ECU SIMULATION TEST METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18721755 | MOBILE TERMINAL POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VO, ERIC MINHSANG | 2644 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18616808 | IN-VEHICLE MICROPHONE AND VEHICLE | KURR, JASON R | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 141d overdue | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
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