Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd. currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 6 distinct examiners, indicating a fragmented prosecution landscape where each examiner handles a matter. The workload spans 5 distinct art units, suggesting that while the technology area is focused, the specific examination groups are varied enough to require different procedural approaches. Practitioners must prepare for different examination styles across the 5 distinct art units involved.
TARKO, ASMAMAW G is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, though this individual is responsible for only 1 pending office action. The parity between the 6 pending office actions and the number of examiners means that no examiner holds a concentrated portion of the portfolio. This distribution implies that the matters are subject to the internal policies of multiple supervisory chains. Because of the examiner count, the company cannot rely on a relationship to resolve the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner. This decentralized structure requires a broad strategy to address the various requirements of the multiple art units.
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 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TARKO, ASMAMAW G | 1 | 72.7% | +9.0% |
| GALT, CASSI J | 1 | 69.5% | +16.1% |
| TEKLE, DANIEL T | 1 | 63.2% | -6.0% |
| JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | 1 | 81.9% | +22.8% |
| WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 1 | 58.5% | +32.9% |
| FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS | 1 | 21.7% | +60.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17818338 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 71d |
| 18776989 | POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS UTILIZING NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM | GALT, CASSI J | — |
| 18298411 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SIMULATING OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | — |
| 17657611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING LANE LINES, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17818338 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 71d |
| 18776989 | POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS UTILIZING NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM | GALT, CASSI J | — |
| 18298411 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SIMULATING OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | — |
| 17657611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING LANE LINES, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2482 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19180922 | SENSOR LAYOUT OF VEHICLES | TARKO, ASMAMAW G | 2482 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 18776989 | POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS UTILIZING NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM | GALT, CASSI J | 3648 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18738837 | TARGET DETECTION METHOD, VEHICLE, COMPUTING DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | TEKLE, DANIEL T | 2481 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18298411 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SIMULATING OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 17818338 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 2187 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
| 17657611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING LANE LINES, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS | 2671 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
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