Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing X-Ring Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a lack of concentration in a unified administrative group. The workload is split among the assigned staff, as no individual examiner handles the entire pending volume. This decentralized structure requires the applicant to address the specific technical standards of the 2 distinct art units while managing the procedural expectations of the 2 distinct examiners.
Examiner AHN, SUNG S is identified as the busiest examiner for this company and is responsible for 1 pending office action. Practitioners should note that while the portfolio is small, the involvement of the 2 distinct art units suggests diverse technical subject matter within the Communications sector. The presence of multiple examiners for the 2 pending office actions ensures that prosecution strategies must be tailored to individual examiner preferences. AHN, SUNG S oversees 1 pending office action, and the outcome of this matter will be a key indicator for the company's success in this technology area.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHN, SUNG S | 1 | 78.6% | +12.0% |
| TSE, YOUNG TOI | 1 | 89.3% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024706 | METHOD FOR BEAM SENSING, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND CHIP | AHN, SUNG S | — |
| 18649835 | BLIND TRANSFER METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND CHIP | TSE, YOUNG TOI | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024706 | METHOD FOR BEAM SENSING, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND CHIP | AHN, SUNG S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2631 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024706 | METHOD FOR BEAM SENSING, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND CHIP | AHN, SUNG S | 2631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18649835 | BLIND TRANSFER METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND CHIP | TSE, YOUNG TOI | 2632 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
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