Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ck Materials Lab Co. Ltd. manages 6 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners but are concentrated within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while the technical scope is narrow, the prosecution involves many different perspectives.
The busiest examiner is LA, ANH V, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that each distinct examiner is handling exactly 1 pending office action, no single examiner dominates the portfolio's current activity despite the limited number of 2 distinct art units involved.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA, ANH V | 1 | 84.6% | +13.8% |
| TUN, NAY L | 1 | 64.9% | +31.4% |
| TRUONG, THOMAS | 1 | 73.4% | +15.8% |
| BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 1 | 63.0% | +23.8% |
| GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| AURORA, REENA | 1 | 87.1% | -13.4% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686449 | PRESSURE SENSOR USING MAGNETIC FIELD | AURORA, REENA | 119d overdue |
| 19051291 | HAPTIC DEVICE AND HAPTIC MODULE | TRUONG, THOMAS | — |
| 18772061 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A VEHICLE WITH INFORMATION OF AN INCOMING MESSAGE USING A TACTILE SIGNAL | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | — |
| 18686451 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUID | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19206613 | HAPTIC KNOB SYSTEM AND HAPTIC HINGE SYSTEM | LA, ANH V | — |
| 19184122 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC CONTROL SIGNAL | TUN, NAY L | — |
| 19051291 | HAPTIC DEVICE AND HAPTIC MODULE | TRUONG, THOMAS | — |
| 18772061 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A VEHICLE WITH INFORMATION OF AN INCOMING MESSAGE USING A TACTILE SIGNAL | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19206613 | HAPTIC KNOB SYSTEM AND HAPTIC HINGE SYSTEM | LA, ANH V | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19184122 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC CONTROL SIGNAL | TUN, NAY L | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19051291 | HAPTIC DEVICE AND HAPTIC MODULE | TRUONG, THOMAS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18772061 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A VEHICLE WITH INFORMATION OF AN INCOMING MESSAGE USING A TACTILE SIGNAL | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 2685 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18686451 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUID | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18686449 | PRESSURE SENSOR USING MAGNETIC FIELD | AURORA, REENA | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 119d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
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