Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
GREATER SHINE Limited is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that even with a small number of pending matters, the company's intellectual property efforts are spread across different administrative and technical divisions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the technical subject matter of these two applications may be distinct enough to require review by different specialized groups within the patent office.
XIAOMING WEI is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners should be aware that the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units, which may lead to different procedural experiences. This distribution requires a prosecution strategy that is adaptable to the specific requirements of each examiner and art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEI, XIAOMING | 1 | 82.0% | +17.3% |
| FAYED, RASHA K | 1 | 63.3% | +25.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18671337 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WEI, XIAOMING | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17813858 | BASEBAND CHIP AND METHOD FOR LAYER 2 DOWNLINK DATA PROCESSING | FAYED, RASHA K | 88d overdue |
| 18671337 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WEI, XIAOMING | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2413 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18671337 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WEI, XIAOMING | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 17813858 | BASEBAND CHIP AND METHOD FOR LAYER 2 DOWNLINK DATA PROCESSING | FAYED, RASHA K | 2413 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2022 |
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