Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
DOUYIN VISION CO., LTD. currently has 7 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These 7 actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. This perfect one-to-one-to-one ratio suggests that every pending application is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized technical group.
RICHARDSON, JAMES E is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are 7 distinct examiners for 7 total actions, no single examiner has more than one case. The involvement of 7 distinct art units indicates a highly diverse set of software and computing technologies being prosecuted simultaneously, requiring a broad range of technical arguments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, RUTAO | 1 | 39.4% | +23.6% |
| BOUTAH, ALINA A | 1 | 89.8% | +9.3% |
| SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 1 | 82.1% | +13.5% |
| GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J | 1 | 58.2% | +6.5% |
| LY, CHEYNE D | 1 | 78.9% | +10.8% |
| CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | 1 | 41.5% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862050 | INTERACTIVE LIVE STREAMING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 8d overdue |
| 18864173 | LIVE INTERACTION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | BOUTAH, ALINA 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.
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862050 | INTERACTIVE LIVE STREAMING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 8d overdue |
| 18869395 | MESSAGE PROCESSING METHODS, APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICES, STORAGE MEDIA, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS | WU, RUTAO | — |
| 18834989 | METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING BOOK INFORMATION | LY, CHEYNE D | — |
| 18329346 | METHOD, APPARATUSES, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR VIDEO RECOMMENDATION | CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 1 |
| 2458 | 1 |
| 2453 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 2152 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869395 | MESSAGE PROCESSING METHODS, APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICES, STORAGE MEDIA, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS | WU, RUTAO | 2445 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18864173 | LIVE INTERACTION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | BOUTAH, ALINA A | 2458 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18862050 | INTERACTIVE LIVE STREAMING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 2453 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18839975 | SEARCH RESULT DISPLAY METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J | 2153 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18834989 | METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING BOOK INFORMATION | LY, CHEYNE D | 2152 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18329346 | METHOD, APPARATUSES, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR VIDEO RECOMMENDATION | CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
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