Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cox Communications Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, showing a diverse technical footprint within the software sector. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 3 pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners requires the company to manage three separate examiner relationships.
The busiest examiner is PENG, HUAWEN A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is completely decentralized. The company must manage 3 separate examiner relationships across 3 distinct art units, requiring attention to the specific preferences of each examiner involved. Practitioners should note that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a unique examiner, which may lead to different prosecution outcomes across the 3 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENG, HUAWEN A | 1 | 82.3% | +20.4% |
| XU, XIAOLAN | 1 | 74.2% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19281166 | System and Method of Device Performance and Behavior Tracking and Analysis | PENG, HUAWEN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792152 | Geolocation System | XU, XIAOLAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19281166 | System and Method of Device Performance and Behavior Tracking and Analysis | PENG, HUAWEN A | — |
| 18792152 | Geolocation System | XU, XIAOLAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19281166 | System and Method of Device Performance and Behavior Tracking and Analysis | PENG, HUAWEN A | 2169 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 18792152 | Geolocation System | XU, XIAOLAN | 2488 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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