Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foxconn Technology Group Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each action is being reviewed by a different person. The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical variety within the Communications sector.
The busiest examiner, BRIER, JEFFERY A, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is one of the 4 pending office actions in the total portfolio. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for the actions, every examiner is currently handling exactly 1 action. This even distribution across 2 distinct art units shows that no single examiner dominates the company's current workload. The 4 pending office actions are thus reviewed by a diverse group of officials.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE | 1 | 64.2% | +12.8% |
| BRIER, JEFFERY A | 1 | 77.1% | +8.7% |
| BARAKAT, MOHAMED | 1 | 73.7% | +23.1% |
| ROBERTS, RACHEL L | 1 | 73.0% | +24.0% |
| BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 1 | 90.0% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633532 | SCENE ENCODING GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19218638 | TRAJECTORY PREDICTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE | — |
| 19052247 | DRIVER MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633532 | SCENE ENCODING GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 27d |
| 19218638 | TRAJECTORY PREDICTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE | — |
| 19052247 | DRIVER MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | — |
| 18906145 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ROBERTS, RACHEL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19218638 | TRAJECTORY PREDICTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE | 3661 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19069242 | METHOD AND APPARATUS RELATED TO DATA GENERATION FRAMEWORK | BRIER, JEFFERY A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19052247 | DRIVER MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | 2689 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18906145 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ROBERTS, RACHEL L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18633532 | SCENE ENCODING GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 2665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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