Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Genki Instruments Ehf has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. While these actions involve 3 distinct examiners, they are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. TUAN A TRAN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This structure indicates that although different individuals are reviewing the applications, the prosecution remains centralized within a single organizational division at the patent office.
The concentration of 3 pending office actions in a single art unit suggests a high degree of technical similarity among the filings. Even though there are multiple examiners, their shared environment likely leads to a more uniform application of examination guidelines. TUAN A TRAN handles a portion of the pending matters, which is the same volume as the other examiners.
For a portfolio with multiple pending office actions, having multiple distinct examiners means that no single person has a majority influence over the company's current prosecution. However, the use of only 1 distinct art unit provides a point of stability. Practitioners can focus on the specific practices of this single division while managing the individual styles of the distinct examiners involved.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, TUAN A | 1 | 85.3% | +7.6% |
| LE, LANA N | 1 | 81.6% | +13.9% |
| KIM, WESLEY LEO | 1 | 60.8% | +32.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981722 | SMART RING | TRAN, TUAN A | — |
| 18406055 | SMART RING | LE, LANA N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18406055 | SMART RING | LE, LANA N | — |
| 18385413 | SMART RING | KIM, WESLEY LEO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2648 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981722 | SMART RING | TRAN, TUAN A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18406055 | SMART RING | LE, LANA N | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18385413 | SMART RING | KIM, WESLEY LEO | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial