Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Galaxycore Shanghai Limited Corporation currently has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units and involve 3 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that the company's filings cover a variety of technical niches within the communications sector. The busiest examiner, GILES, NICHOLAS G, is responsible for 1 pending action, showing that the workload is evenly spread.
The use of 3 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions means that each application is being evaluated under different departmental standards. Because 3 distinct examiners are involved, there is no examiner overlap that the company can leverage for a more efficient prosecution. Each of the 3 pending office actions will require a unique strategy tailored to the specific official and art unit assigned.
Practitioners should note that the relationship of pending actions to examiners for the busiest official, GILES, NICHOLAS G, confirms a lack of concentration. This decentralized structure requires careful coordination to ensure that the 3 pending office actions are handled effectively across the different art units. The company's presence in the Communications area suggests a focus on complex electronic or networking technologies.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILES, NICHOLAS G | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| PHAM, QUAN L | 1 | 69.5% | +28.0% |
| JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 67.6% | +22.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693106 | CAMERA MODULE AND DIGITAL DEVICE THEREOF | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 16d overdue |
| 18870194 | METHOD FOR REDUCING ROUTINGS BETWEEN MODULES, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SENSOR | GILES, NICHOLAS G | — |
| 18864408 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | PHAM, QUAN L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693106 | CAMERA MODULE AND DIGITAL DEVICE THEREOF | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 16d overdue |
| 18870194 | METHOD FOR REDUCING ROUTINGS BETWEEN MODULES, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SENSOR | GILES, NICHOLAS G | — |
| 18864408 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | PHAM, QUAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18870194 | METHOD FOR REDUCING ROUTINGS BETWEEN MODULES, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SENSOR | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 2639 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18864408 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | PHAM, QUAN L | 2637 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18693106 | CAMERA MODULE AND DIGITAL DEVICE THEREOF | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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