Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cong Lu has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CHOI, CHARLES J, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a very focused and low-volume prosecution profile with only 1 pending office action currently in the system.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the entirety of the company's active patent office interaction is concentrated in one place. CHOI, CHARLES J is the sole individual responsible for the 1 pending office action. This suggests that the current technical focus is limited to a single niche within Computing & Software.
Practitioners should note that there is no examiner diversity to manage for this portfolio. The 1 pending office action is the only active matter, and its outcome depends entirely on the interaction with CHOI, CHARLES J. The 1 distinct art unit confirms the narrow technical scope of the current filing, requiring a deep understanding of that specific classification.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, CHARLES J | 1 | 82.9% | +4.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867249 | DATA READING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CHOI, CHARLES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2175 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867249 | DATA READING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CHOI, CHARLES J | 2175 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCong Lu has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Charles J Choi has the most, with 1 of Cong Lu's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
