Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fontem Ventures B V has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for 1 matter. The data indicates 0 distinct art units for these pending actions.
VU, TUAN A is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action is 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's prosecution is split between different individuals, even though no art units are specified in the current data.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, TUAN A | 1 | 73.2% | +21.1% |
| GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1 | 82.8% | +16.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18732613 | ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18766251 | DATA CONNECTION FOR AN ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE | VU, TUAN A | — |
| 18732613 | ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18766251 | DATA CONNECTION FOR AN ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE | VU, TUAN A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18732613 | ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
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