Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Box Inc. has 13 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical focuses within the software domain. The company interacts with 12 distinct examiners for these matters. Jason Kai Yin Gee is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 2 pending actions.
With 13 pending office actions and 12 distinct examiners, the portfolio shows a high degree of examiner variety. The presence of 10 distinct art units suggests that the company's software innovations span multiple specialized examination groups. This breadth of prosecution requires managing relationships across many different sectors of the patent office. Practitioners must coordinate their responses to ensure consistency across the 10 distinct art units involved. The high ratio of examiners to actions means that almost every pending matter is being reviewed by a unique individual. This decentralized approach can lead to varying prosecution timelines and outcomes depending on the specific examiner assigned to each of the 13 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (46%) |
| §103 only | 4 (31%) |
| §112 only | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEE, JASON KAI YIN | 2 | 77.5% | +23.7% |
| CHAI, LONGBIT | 1 | 87.9% | +31.2% |
| VANG, MENG | 1 | 78.2% | +26.9% |
| ASPINWALL, EVAN S | 1 | 82.7% | +17.1% |
| RUSS, COREY V | 1 | 27.1% | +38.6% |
| COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 1 | 72.5% | +29.1% |
| PHAM, MICHAEL | 1 | 80.0% | +22.0% |
| SPRATT, BEAU D | 1 | 78.8% | +24.3% |
| RIVERA, ANIBAL | 1 | 90.9% | +11.9% |
| PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW | 1 | 79.9% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731086 | ISOLATING PASSAGES FROM CONTEXT-LADEN COLLABORATION SYSTEM CONTENT OBJECTS | PHAM, MICHAEL | 31d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439158 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOFTWARE CODE GENERATION | RIVERA, ANIBAL | 4d overdue |
| 19030695 | ACQUIRING ELECTRONIC-BASED SIGNATURES | GEE, JASON KAI YIN | — |
| 19031303 | PREDICTING USER-FILE INTERACTIONS | CHAI, LONGBIT | — |
| 18911100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METADATA EXTRACTION | ASPINWALL, EVAN S | — |
| 18906930 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAKING FILE REQUESTS IN A COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT | RUSS, COREY V | — |
| 18601966 | DETERMINING COLLABORATION RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FILE PATH INFORMATION | SPRATT, BEAU D | — |
| 18333496 | FORMING EVENT-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731086 | ISOLATING PASSAGES FROM CONTEXT-LADEN COLLABORATION SYSTEM CONTENT OBJECTS | PHAM, MICHAEL | 31d overdue |
| 18439158 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOFTWARE CODE GENERATION | RIVERA, ANIBAL | 4d overdue |
| 18746466 | METADATA QUERY MECHANISM | COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 9d |
| 19030695 | ACQUIRING ELECTRONIC-BASED SIGNATURES | GEE, JASON KAI YIN | — |
| 19031303 | PREDICTING USER-FILE INTERACTIONS | CHAI, LONGBIT | — |
| 19030739 | ACQUIRING ELECTRONIC-BASED SIGNATURES | GEE, JASON KAI YIN | — |
| 19019371 | CALCULATING AND REPORTING COLLABORATION SYSTEM RISKS | VANG, MENG | — |
| 18911100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METADATA EXTRACTION | ASPINWALL, EVAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2152 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 2143 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 2183 | 1 |
| 3600 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19030695 | ACQUIRING ELECTRONIC-BASED SIGNATURES | GEE, JASON KAI YIN | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19031303 | PREDICTING USER-FILE INTERACTIONS | CHAI, LONGBIT | 2431 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030739 | ACQUIRING ELECTRONIC-BASED SIGNATURES | GEE, JASON KAI YIN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19019371 | CALCULATING AND REPORTING COLLABORATION SYSTEM RISKS | VANG, MENG | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18911100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METADATA EXTRACTION | ASPINWALL, EVAN S | 2152 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18906930 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAKING FILE REQUESTS IN A COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT | RUSS, COREY V | 3629 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18746466 | METADATA QUERY MECHANISM | COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 2154 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18731086 | ISOLATING PASSAGES FROM CONTEXT-LADEN COLLABORATION SYSTEM CONTENT OBJECTS | PHAM, MICHAEL | 2153 | §112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18601966 | DETERMINING COLLABORATION RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FILE PATH INFORMATION | SPRATT, BEAU D | 2143 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18439158 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOFTWARE CODE GENERATION | RIVERA, ANIBAL | 2192 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18400560 | WORKFLOW EXECUTION STATE VARIABLES | PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW | 2183 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18333496 | FORMING EVENT-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 3600 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 17823938 | FINE-GRAINED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS | ALAM, MUSHFIKH I | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
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