Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. is managing 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 3 pending office actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning no single examiner is reviewing more than one application in this set. These examiners are located within 2 distinct art units, which provides a relatively concentrated procedural environment for the 3 pending office actions. The busiest examiner, LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A, is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the Communications portfolio is being scrutinized by multiple sets of eyes. While the 2 distinct art units provide some level of departmental consistency, the 3 distinct examiners will each bring their own perspective to the prosecution process. Practitioners should note that LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A holds 1 busiest examiner pending action, matching the workload of the other 2 distinct examiners. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for the nuances of 2 distinct art units while responding to 3 distinct examiners. The 1:1 ratio of examiners to pending actions ensures that each of the 3 pending office actions receives dedicated attention, even as they are split across 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A | 1 | 88.4% | +8.1% |
| SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T | 1 | 72.0% | +20.0% |
| MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 27.8% | +1.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805489 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18072620 | UNDER-VOLTAGE PROTECTION METHOD AND BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPLYING THE SAME | MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212644 | VISUAL INSPECTION METHOD OF A CURVED OBJECT | SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18805489 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18212644 | VISUAL INSPECTION METHOD OF A CURVED OBJECT | SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T | 2639 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18072620 | UNDER-VOLTAGE PROTECTION METHOD AND BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPLYING THE SAME | MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | 2859 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
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