Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay maintains a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions under review by the USPTO. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is receiving independent evaluation. WU, CHONG is noted as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The prosecution is technically dispersed across 2 distinct art units. This arrangement, where 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units, shows a distribution of the workload across different examination silos. For practitioners, this means that the company's current communications-related filings are being tested against different sets of examiner standards. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner represents a portion of the company's total pending workload at this time.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, CHONG | 1 | 86.5% | +3.3% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.6% | +7.6% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864270 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE X-RAY INSPECTION OF A PART | WU, CHONG | 2613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18690681 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MONITORING A PART BY X-RAY | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | — | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial