Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
BenQ Corporation operates within the Communications technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These 3 actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, indicating that no single examiner is handling multiple pending matters for the firm.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's communications innovations fall into at least two different specialized categories at the patent office. PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For practitioners, the distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 examiners and 2 art units requires a coordinated approach. Each of the 3 examiners will have different perspectives on the 2 art units involved. The focus on Communications remains the central theme of the company's current prosecution efforts. This structure allows the company to pursue multiple technical paths within the communications sector without being limited by the backlog of a single examiner.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 1 | 82.6% | +12.5% |
| HENSON, JAMAAL R | 1 | 84.4% | +4.3% |
| GUAN, GUANG H | 1 | 59.6% | +54.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18772299 | PLAYBACK MODE SWITCHING METHOD AND MULTIMEDIA PLAYBACK APPARATUS THEREOF | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 44d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18433415 | STAND AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | GUAN, GUANG H | 70d |
| 18761423 | BLUETOOTH CONNECTION SYSTEM AND BLUETOOTH CONNECTION METHOD | HENSON, JAMAAL 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18772299 | PLAYBACK MODE SWITCHING METHOD AND MULTIMEDIA PLAYBACK APPARATUS THEREOF | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 44d overdue |
| 18433415 | STAND AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | GUAN, GUANG H | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2655 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18772299 | PLAYBACK MODE SWITCHING METHOD AND MULTIMEDIA PLAYBACK APPARATUS THEREOF | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18761423 | BLUETOOTH CONNECTION SYSTEM AND BLUETOOTH CONNECTION METHOD | HENSON, JAMAAL R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18433415 | STAND AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | GUAN, GUANG H | 3631 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
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