Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
FARO Technologies Inc. has 13 pending office actions focused within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed among 11 distinct examiners, suggesting a relatively broad spread of oversight for the portfolio size. The busiest examiner, XIAO, YUQING, is currently managing 3 pending office actions, which represents a significant portion of the total workload for this specific portfolio.
The prosecution activity spans 6 distinct art units, indicating that while the technology area is centered on Communications, the specific applications touch upon several different specialized groups. With 13 pending actions and 11 distinct examiners, the company faces a variety of examination styles, though the concentration of 3 actions under one examiner provides a small point of consistency. The presence of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's Communications filings are diverse enough to trigger reviews from multiple technical divisions within the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XIAO, YUQING | 3 | 60.3% | +28.0% |
| RICHER, AARON M | 1 | 52.4% | +20.7% |
| LEE, PAUL D | 1 | 82.9% | +15.0% |
| TRAN, PHUOC | 1 | 85.3% | +8.8% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 1 | 87.3% | +10.3% |
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 1 | 63.1% | +48.3% |
| MAZUMDER, TAPAS | 1 | 82.1% | +16.8% |
| NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 1 | 26.7% | +51.2% |
| HOCKER, JOHN PAUL | 1 | 56.4% | +29.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18632564 | IMAGE ACQUISITION FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICES | TRAN, PHUOC | — |
| 18514898 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129358 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 14d |
| 17850084 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A FLOORPLAN | XIAO, YUQING | 16d |
| 18359603 | PHOTOGRAMMETRY SYSTEM FOR GENERATING STREET EDGES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAPS | MAZUMDER, TAPAS | 29d |
| 18131596 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | XIAO, YUQING | 36d |
| 18778334 | MEASURING THE POSITION OF A MIRROR SURFACE IN POINT CLOUDS CAPTURED BY A SCANNER | LEE, PAUL D | — |
| 18106842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMBINING THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA | HOCKER, JOHN PAUL | — |
| 17330721 | CAPTURING ENVIRONMENTAL SCANS USING ANCHOR OBJECTS FOR REGISTRATION | XIAO, YUQING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19062827 | GENERATING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR VIEWING 3D DATA AND/OR IMAGE DATA | RICHER, AARON M | 44d overdue |
| 18447617 | GAP FILLING FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA VISUALIZATION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 36d overdue |
| 18364699 | GENERATING A PARALLAX FREE TWO AND A HALF (2.5) DIMENSIONAL POINT CLOUD USING A HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 11d overdue |
| 18129358 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 14d |
| 17850084 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A FLOORPLAN | XIAO, YUQING | 16d |
| 18359603 | PHOTOGRAMMETRY SYSTEM FOR GENERATING STREET EDGES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAPS | MAZUMDER, TAPAS | 29d |
| 18131596 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | XIAO, YUQING | 36d |
| 18778334 | MEASURING THE POSITION OF A MIRROR SURFACE IN POINT CLOUDS CAPTURED BY A SCANNER | LEE, PAUL D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 4 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062827 | GENERATING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR VIEWING 3D DATA AND/OR IMAGE DATA | RICHER, AARON M | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18778334 | MEASURING THE POSITION OF A MIRROR SURFACE IN POINT CLOUDS CAPTURED BY A SCANNER | LEE, PAUL D | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18632564 | IMAGE ACQUISITION FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICES | TRAN, PHUOC | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18514898 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18447617 | GAP FILLING FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA VISUALIZATION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18364699 | GENERATING A PARALLAX FREE TWO AND A HALF (2.5) DIMENSIONAL POINT CLOUD USING A HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18359603 | PHOTOGRAMMETRY SYSTEM FOR GENERATING STREET EDGES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAPS | MAZUMDER, TAPAS | 2615 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18131596 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18129358 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18106842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMBINING THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA | HOCKER, JOHN PAUL | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 17850084 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A FLOORPLAN | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17330721 | CAPTURING ENVIRONMENTAL SCANS USING ANCHOR OBJECTS FOR REGISTRATION | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2021 |
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