Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Feng Chia University maintains 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These active matters are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing a broad distribution of the university's intellectual property efforts. AARON JOSEPH SORRIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action.
The presence of 3 pending office actions in the Communications sector highlights the university's active engagement in this field. Because these actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners in 3 distinct art units, the prosecution experience is highly fragmented. This lack of overlap between examiners and art units suggests that each of the pending matters is likely being evaluated on unique technical grounds within the broader Communications area.
With AARON JOSEPH SORRIN overseeing 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly divided among the examiners. This distribution implies that the university must manage multiple separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. The involvement of the distinct art units further indicates that the university's research in Communications spans several specialized sub-disciplines, each subject to different examination environments and examiner expectations.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | 1 | 76.0% | +42.0% |
| N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 1 | 78.2% | +15.1% |
| HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 1 | 11.1% | +100.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958846 | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT SCENE ANALYSIS SYSTEM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | — |
| 18141361 | VIRTUAL REALITY HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN STRABISMUS TREATMENT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427561 | WATERBORNE AUTONOMOUS RESCUE DEVICE AND SYSTEM | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 41d |
| 18958846 | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT SCENE ANALYSIS SYSTEM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | — |
| 18141361 | VIRTUAL REALITY HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN STRABISMUS TREATMENT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2672 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958846 | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT SCENE ANALYSIS SYSTEM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | 2672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18427561 | WATERBORNE AUTONOMOUS RESCUE DEVICE AND SYSTEM | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18141361 | VIRTUAL REALITY HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN STRABISMUS TREATMENT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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