Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited has 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners. Interestingly, all 3 examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the administrative oversight of the portfolio. This focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically similar enough to be grouped together by the office, which can lead to a more consistent application of technical standards across the docket.
KESSLER, GREGORY AARON is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since the total pending office actions count is 3 and there are 3 distinct examiners, no single examiner is handling more than one case. Practitioners can expect individual interactions with each of the 3 examiners while operating within the same art unit. This scenario requires managing 3 separate relationships, although the shared art unit environment may provide some consistency in the overall examination approach for the 3 pending matters. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 highlights the distributed nature of the workload among the 3 distinct examiners.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSLER, GREGORY AARON | 1 | 87.1% | +8.0% |
| ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | 1 | 68.7% | +13.6% |
| DOMAN, SHAWN | 1 | 64.9% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18574516 | GRAPH TASK SCHEDULING METHOD, EXECUTION-END DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | KESSLER, GREGORY AARON | — |
| 18003820 | INTEGRATED COMPUTING APPARATUS, CHIP, BOARD CARD, DEVICE AND COMPUTING METHOD | DOMAN, SHAWN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714933 | NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | — |
| 18003820 | INTEGRATED COMPUTING APPARATUS, CHIP, BOARD CARD, DEVICE AND COMPUTING METHOD | DOMAN, SHAWN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2183 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18574516 | GRAPH TASK SCHEDULING METHOD, EXECUTION-END DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | KESSLER, GREGORY AARON | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18714933 | NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18003820 | INTEGRATED COMPUTING APPARATUS, CHIP, BOARD CARD, DEVICE AND COMPUTING METHOD | DOMAN, SHAWN | 2183 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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