Technology area: Computing & Software
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Clearbrief Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters involve 4 examiners across 3 art units, indicating separate examiner treatment with some technical-group overlap.
VELEZ-LOPEZ, MARIO M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should compare the matters for recurring software claim issues while preserving examiner-specific response strategies and art-unit analysis.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VELEZ-LOPEZ, MARIO M | 1 | 74.5% | +5.0% |
| NGUYEN, CAO H | 1 | 90.9% | +7.4% |
| TSUI, WILSON W | 1 | 62.0% | +56.7% |
| PHAM, THIERRY L | 1 | 80.6% | +5.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914339 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Tokenizing Document Citations | NGUYEN, CAO H | — |
| 18897113 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Automated Factual Citation Detection | PHAM, THIERRY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897226 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product For Inserting Citations Into a Textual Document | TSUI, WILSON W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897226 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product For Inserting Citations Into a Textual Document | TSUI, WILSON W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2118 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922605 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Identifying Events and Representing a Plurality of Events in an Interactive Graphical User Interface | VELEZ-LOPEZ, MARIO M | 2118 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18914339 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Tokenizing Document Citations | NGUYEN, CAO H | 2171 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18897226 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product For Inserting Citations Into a Textual Document | TSUI, WILSON W | 2172 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18897113 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Automated Factual Citation Detection | PHAM, THIERRY L | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialClearbrief Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Mario M Velez-Lopez has the most, with 1 of Clearbrief Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
