Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • 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
Expedera Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technology involves different specialized areas of computing. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate the standards of 2 different departments.
The prosecution is being handled by 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for 1 of the 2 pending office actions. The busiest examiner is ZENG, WENWEI, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the workload is split between the examiners involved in the portfolio.
Managing the workload across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a versatile approach to patent prosecution. While ZENG, WENWEI is the busiest examiner, the 1 busiest examiner pending action only represents a portion of the company's current activity in the Computing & Software field. Practitioners must be prepared to address the unique requirements of both examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZENG, WENWEI | 1 | — | — |
| GARBOWSKI, LEIGH M | 1 | 88.0% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18315074 | Power-Efficient Clocking and Clock Shaping | GARBOWSKI, LEIGH M | 29d |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212618 | Methods And Apparatus For Managing Weight Data Accesses For Neural Network Processors | ZENG, WENWEI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18315074 | Power-Efficient Clocking and Clock Shaping | GARBOWSKI, LEIGH M | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2146 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18212618 | Methods And Apparatus For Managing Weight Data Accesses For Neural Network Processors | ZENG, WENWEI | 2146 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18315074 | Power-Efficient Clocking and Clock Shaping | GARBOWSKI, LEIGH M | 2851 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
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