Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Creaform Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently handling a single pending matter for the company. Furthermore, the examiners are located in 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's networking and security innovations are being evaluated by different specialized groups within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is XU, XIAOLAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This specific action is one of the active office actions currently pending. Because the workload is split between different art units, the prosecution strategy must account for the specific technical requirements and examination styles of different administrative units. The presence of multiple examiners suggests that the company is receiving feedback from various perspectives within the Networking & Security field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, XIAOLAN | 1 | 74.2% | +13.2% |
| LEE, SHUN K | 1 | 42.2% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569310 | HANDHELD 3D SCANNER | LEE, SHUN K | 2d overdue |
| 18848161 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A 3D SURFACE SCAN AND/OR TEXTURE ACQUISITION USING ROLLING SHUTTER CAMERAS | XU, XIAOLAN | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848161 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A 3D SURFACE SCAN AND/OR TEXTURE ACQUISITION USING ROLLING SHUTTER CAMERAS | XU, XIAOLAN | 2488 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18569310 | HANDHELD 3D SCANNER | LEE, SHUN K | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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