Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fnv Ip B.V. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These active matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates a small amount of overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's applications. The portfolio is active across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's software innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized technical groups at the patent office. This distribution requires navigating multiple sets of procedural and technical standards to resolve the 5 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LE, MIRANDA, who is currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This individual manages a larger share of the workload compared to the other 4 distinct examiners involved. With 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units involved, the prosecution environment is relatively focused. Practitioners can prioritize their interactions with the busiest examiner to move the active cases forward.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, MIRANDA | 1 | 74.9% | +77.3% |
| N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 1 | 78.2% | +15.1% |
| YANG, ANDREW GUS | 1 | 69.1% | +7.6% |
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +2.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477744 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVERTING SEISMIC DATASETS | LE, MIRANDA | — |
| 18505607 | CORING SAMPLER DEVICE AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING A SOIL SAMPLE | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477744 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVERTING SEISMIC DATASETS | LE, MIRANDA | — |
| 18970503 | MULTI-CHANNEL SUB-BOTTOM PROFILER (SBP) ACQUISITION SYSTEM | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2153 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19477744 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVERTING SEISMIC DATASETS | LE, MIRANDA | 2153 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 18970503 | MULTI-CHANNEL SUB-BOTTOM PROFILER (SBP) ACQUISITION SYSTEM | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18824864 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZATION AND MANIPULATION OF GEOGRAPHIC SCENE VIEWS USING NON-COMPOSITE OBLIQUE IMAGERY | YANG, ANDREW GUS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18505607 | CORING SAMPLER DEVICE AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING A SOIL SAMPLE | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 2855 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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