Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cheng Mei Instrument Technology Co. Ltd. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's pending matters are being reviewed independently by different personnel in different departments. Such a distribution suggests that the 2 pending applications may cover distinct technical aspects of Networking & Security, requiring tailored prosecution strategies for each case.
RICKY CHIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided. Each examiner is responsible for 1 of the company's active office actions. This structure requires the company to navigate 2 separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. Because each of the 2 pending actions is in a different art unit, the company must adapt to the specific standards of 2 different art units and 2 different examiners. This diversity in the prosecution profile may provide a broader base of intellectual property but also increases the complexity of managing the 2 active cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, RICKY | 1 | 68.5% | +21.7% |
| HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807410 | INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 1d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807410 | INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 1d overdue |
| 19020512 | METHOD FOR WAFER INSECTION AND SYSTEM THEREOF | CHIN, RICKY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020512 | METHOD FOR WAFER INSECTION AND SYSTEM THEREOF | CHIN, RICKY | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18807410 | INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
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