Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these 6 pending office actions is assigned to a different person, as there are 6 distinct examiners involved. This distribution means that no single examiner has a concentrated influence over the current portfolio. The matters are organized within 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's pending office actions involve several different technical classifications. AWAD, AMR A is the busiest examiner but only has 1 pending office action.
With the distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, the company must address a variety of examiner preferences and technical guidelines to resolve the pending office actions. The lack of examiner overlap suggests that each case will progress on its own merits without much influence from concurrent applications. Navigating the art units requires the prosecution team to be familiar with multiple sets of technical standards. This variety ensures that the pending office actions are subject to a broad range of expert reviews, requiring a versatile and adaptive legal 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 | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWAD, AMR A | 1 | 36.4% | +20.4% |
| ASMAT UCEDA, MARTIN ANTONIO | 1 | 84.0% | +11.5% |
| EDWARDS, ANTHONY Q | 1 | 84.5% | +14.7% |
| THOMAS, BRANDI N | 1 | 82.6% | +7.8% |
| SAEED, AHMED M | 1 | 80.8% | +13.1% |
| CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO | 1 | 77.7% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590081 | CAMERA DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, BRANDI N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073716 | INPUT APPARATUS AND RETRACTABLE CONNECTION DEVICE | ASMAT UCEDA, MARTIN ANTONIO | — |
| 18986147 | PROTECTIVE COVER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | EDWARDS, ANTHONY Q | — |
| 18411848 | KEYBOARD AND KEY MODULE THEREOF | SAEED, AHMED M | — |
| 18475166 | KEYCAP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19265153 | STYLUS PEN | AWAD, AMR A | — |
| 19073716 | INPUT APPARATUS AND RETRACTABLE CONNECTION DEVICE | ASMAT UCEDA, MARTIN ANTONIO | — |
| 18986147 | PROTECTIVE COVER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | EDWARDS, ANTHONY Q | — |
| 18411848 | KEYBOARD AND KEY MODULE THEREOF | SAEED, AHMED M | — |
| 18475166 | KEYCAP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 2 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19265153 | STYLUS PEN | AWAD, AMR A | 2621 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19073716 | INPUT APPARATUS AND RETRACTABLE CONNECTION DEVICE | ASMAT UCEDA, MARTIN ANTONIO | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18986147 | PROTECTIVE COVER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | EDWARDS, ANTHONY Q | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18590081 | CAMERA DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, BRANDI N | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18411848 | KEYBOARD AND KEY MODULE THEREOF | SAEED, AHMED M | 2831 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18475166 | KEYCAP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO | 2831 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
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