Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Communications technology area, currently navigating 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating that while the technology is centered on Communications, the specific applications span multiple specialized groups within the patent office. The prosecution strategy involves 7 distinct examiners for the active files, showing a direct ratio of examiners to pending actions.
CHRISTOPHER RAY LAMB is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution suggests that the portfolio's current challenges are not concentrated under the busiest examiner's discretion but are instead spread across a wide range of examiner perspectives. For practitioners, this means that prosecution success relies on managing different examiner relationships simultaneously rather than focusing on a primary bottleneck.
The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the technical focus is broad enough to trigger different examination criteria. Because each of the pending office actions is handled by a different examiner, the company faces a diverse set of procedural styles and interpretations. This lack of examiner overlap requires a flexible approach to responding to office actions across the portfolio, especially when dealing with the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner.
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 | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CAO H | 2 | 90.9% | +7.4% |
| LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | 1 | 52.3% | +9.2% |
| YI, RINNA | 1 | 73.6% | +48.1% |
| YANG, WENYUAN | 1 | 67.3% | +18.2% |
| KELLS, ASHER | 1 | 78.9% | +11.6% |
| PARCHER, DANIEL W | 1 | 61.2% | +57.5% |
| DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 1 | 69.6% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945250 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | NGUYEN, CAO H | — |
| 18925399 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | NGUYEN, CAO H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584128 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 43d overdue |
| 18944231 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | YANG, WENYUAN | 3d overdue |
| 19171585 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | — |
| 18926558 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | KELLS, ASHER | — |
| 18824555 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | PARCHER, DANIEL W | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584128 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 43d overdue |
| 18944231 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | YANG, WENYUAN | 3d overdue |
| 18955055 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | YI, RINNA | — |
| 18926558 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | KELLS, ASHER | — |
| 18824555 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | PARCHER, DANIEL W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2622 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 2174 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171585 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | 2622 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18955055 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | YI, RINNA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18945250 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | NGUYEN, CAO H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18944231 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | YANG, WENYUAN | 3667 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18926558 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | KELLS, ASHER | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18925399 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR | NGUYEN, CAO H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18824555 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | PARCHER, DANIEL W | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18584128 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 2174 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
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