Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Epc Power Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which is the only current interaction the company has with the patent office in the computing and software sector.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current prosecution success depends entirely on a single point of review. This 1 distinct art unit provides the specific regulatory environment for the application. Practitioners should note that the company's current profile in the Computing & Software area is limited to this one matter, making the individual approach of TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI central to their immediate patent goals.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 1 | 83.6% | +18.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19007402 | POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL INVERTER BLOCK | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19007402 | POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL INVERTER BLOCK | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2115 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19007402 | POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL INVERTER BLOCK | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
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