Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cast AI Group Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination paths.
ZHU, RICHARD Z is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should prepare responses by matter, while using the shared technology category to maintain consistent terminology and claim strategy.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHU, RICHARD Z | 1 | 69.3% | +15.5% |
| WONG, LINDA | 1 | 84.9% | +15.5% |
| LAPOINTE, JULIANNE CATHERINE | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058786 | Optimized Container-Based Network Intelligence | WONG, LINDA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19060608 | AUTOMATED SELECTION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19060608 | AUTOMATED SELECTION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
| 19058786 | Optimized Container-Based Network Intelligence | WONG, LINDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2194 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060608 | AUTOMATED SELECTION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 2654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19058786 | Optimized Container-Based Network Intelligence | WONG, LINDA | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18619942 | OPTIMIZED POD PROVISIONING IN KUBERNETES AUTO-SCALER ENVIRONMENT | LAPOINTE, JULIANNE CATHERINE | 2194 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCast AI Group Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Richard Z Zhu has the most, with 1 of Cast AI Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
