Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
21 pending office actions • 11 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dassault Systemes has 19 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. This workload is distributed across 19 distinct examiners, which means that every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This level of examiner diversity is matched by the administrative reach, as the actions are spread across 11 distinct art units. Such a distribution suggests a complex portfolio that spans various sub-specialties within the communications field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 19 distinct examiners, the workload is atomized. No examiner handles more than 1 case, which minimizes the impact of any individual examiner's specific tendencies on the overall portfolio. The involvement of 11 distinct art units further underscores the breadth of the company's technical filings, requiring the legal team to navigate various USPTO departments simultaneously to manage the 19 active matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 2 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (29%) |
| §103 only | 10 (48%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYED, FARHAN M | 2 | 75.1% | +23.1% |
| LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY | 1 | — | — |
| LE, MICHAEL | 1 | 65.8% | +21.6% |
| MINKO, DENIS VASILIY | 1 | 68.8% | +16.4% |
| CESE, KENNY A | 1 | 75.3% | +11.0% |
| PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
| LIU, GORDON G | 1 | 82.9% | +14.8% |
| SUN, HAI TAO | 1 | 73.6% | +24.7% |
| RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 1 | 55.3% | +21.1% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 65.0% | +46.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801009 | RENDERING OF OVERLAPPING TEXTURES IN 3D SCENE | LIU, GORDON G | 3d overdue |
| 18800877 | MAPPING OF TEXTURE IN 3D SCENE | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 2d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962225 | 3D PRINTING PLANNING | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 72d |
| 19051597 | ALIGNMENT OF VIRTUAL MANIKINS | LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY | — |
| 18358830 | MATERIAL SELECTION FOR DESIGNING A MANUFACTURING PRODUCT | COOK, BRIAN S | — |
| 18355322 | SEGMENTING A BUILDING SCENE | GOLD, HENRY JOYNER | — |
| 18341870 | CAD FEATURE TREE GENERATION | GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K | — |
| 18324815 | DESIGNING A SHEET PART COMPRISING BEADS | GAN, CHUEN-MEEI | — |
| 17900638 | CAD VOLUME EXTRUSION OPERATOR DETECTION | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | — |
| 17894498 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY FURNISHING A 3D ROOM BASED ON USER PREFERENCES | STOICA, ADRIAN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544098 | DATA STRUCTURE FOR EFFICIENT GRAPH DATABASE STORAGE | SYED, FARHAN M | 4d overdue |
| 18801009 | RENDERING OF OVERLAPPING TEXTURES IN 3D SCENE | LIU, GORDON G | 3d overdue |
| 18800877 | MAPPING OF TEXTURE IN 3D SCENE | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 2d overdue |
| 19039225 | VOLUME RENDERING OF A SET OF MEDICAL IMAGES | LE, MICHAEL | — |
| 19039144 | SINGLE RENDERING OF SETS OF MEDICAL IMAGES | MINKO, DENIS VASILIY | — |
| 19023624 | GENERATING 2D IMAGE OF 3D SCENE | CESE, KENNY A | — |
| 18989466 | READ-ONLY DATA STRUCTURE FOR ARCHIVING A SNAPSHOT OF AN RDF DATASET INTO A FILE | SYED, FARHAN M | — |
| 18780170 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF A SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE | SUN, HAI TAO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2161 | 2 |
| 2188 | 2 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2618 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19051597 | ALIGNMENT OF VIRTUAL MANIKINS | LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19039225 | VOLUME RENDERING OF A SET OF MEDICAL IMAGES | LE, MICHAEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19039144 | SINGLE RENDERING OF SETS OF MEDICAL IMAGES | MINKO, DENIS VASILIY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19023624 | GENERATING 2D IMAGE OF 3D SCENE | CESE, KENNY A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18989466 | READ-ONLY DATA STRUCTURE FOR ARCHIVING A SNAPSHOT OF AN RDF DATASET INTO A FILE | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18800877 | MAPPING OF TEXTURE IN 3D SCENE | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18801009 | RENDERING OF OVERLAPPING TEXTURES IN 3D SCENE | LIU, GORDON G | 2618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18780170 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF A SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE | SUN, HAI TAO | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18407907 | SEGMENTING A HUMAN PATIENT TRACTOGRAM | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 3798 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18400517 | GENERATING TRAINING DATATSET | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18544098 | DATA STRUCTURE FOR EFFICIENT GRAPH DATABASE STORAGE | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18358830 | MATERIAL SELECTION FOR DESIGNING A MANUFACTURING PRODUCT | COOK, BRIAN S | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18355322 | SEGMENTING A BUILDING SCENE | GOLD, HENRY JOYNER | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18341870 | CAD FEATURE TREE GENERATION | GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18331052 | INFERENCE OF EMERGING PROBLEMS IN PRODUCT MANUFACTURING | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 2857 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18324815 | DESIGNING A SHEET PART COMPRISING BEADS | GAN, CHUEN-MEEI | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18086279 | INFERRENCE OF A GENE EXPRESSION PROFILE VIA NEURAL NETWORK | LUO, JAMMY NMN | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17962225 | 3D PRINTING PLANNING | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 2186 | §101 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17900638 | CAD VOLUME EXTRUSION OPERATOR DETECTION | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 2188 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 17894498 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY FURNISHING A 3D ROOM BASED ON USER PREFERENCES | STOICA, ADRIAN | 2188 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2022 |
| 17891750 | NEURAL NETWORK FOR VARIANT CALLING | WISE, OLIVIA M. | 1685 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
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