Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Felica Networks Inc. is active in the Computing & Software technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are divided between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent applications cover diverse technical aspects within the software domain.
TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split evenly. Each examiner is responsible for 1 pending action in a different art unit. This means that the company's prosecution efforts are not centralized under a single individual or art unit. Instead, the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This decentralized approach requires the company to manage multiple examination tracks simultaneously, as each of the 2 pending office actions is subject to independent review.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | 1 | 30.8% | +66.7% |
| BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 1 | 80.2% | +94.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17044620 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 44d overdue |
| 18546253 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2196 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18546253 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | 2196 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17044620 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 3691 | — | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2020 |
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