Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Black Sesame Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio with 1 pending office action. This single active matter is assigned to HUYNH, KIM T, who serves as the busiest examiner for the company. Since this examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution efforts are entirely concentrated under this individual's review. The data shows that 1 distinct examiner is involved in the current workload, reflecting a singular point of contact within the patent office.
The portfolio is characterized by the involvement of 0 distinct art units. This suggests that the pending application may be in a transitional phase or assigned to a non-traditional classification. For a practitioner, the presence of 1 pending office action handled by 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored specifically to the requirements of HUYNH, KIM T. The lack of multiple examiners or art units simplifies administrative overhead but focuses all risk on a single proceeding.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action, the company has a narrow prosecution footprint at this time. The fact that HUYNH, KIM T handles 1 pending office action indicates that the examiner's specific feedback will be the determining factor for the company's immediate patenting success. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of this single examiner to navigate the current workload. The presence of 0 distinct art units in the data suggests a unique procedural path for this application.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUYNH, KIM T | 1 | 82.6% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617583 | CONTROLLING READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS OF INTER-INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | HUYNH, KIM T | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18617583 | CONTROLLING READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS OF INTER-INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | HUYNH, KIM T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
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