Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gree Inc. is currently processing 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 6 actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. This distribution suggests that the applicant must manage 6 different prosecution styles simultaneously. The portfolio's activity is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the technology involves several different mechanical or medical specialties.
LIU, GORDON G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 distinct examiners for the actions, the workload is dispersed across the examination staff. The presence of 3 distinct art units for the pending office actions shows that while there is some technical clustering, the examiners are entirely distinct. This lack of examiner overlap across the pending office actions requires a broad and individualized approach to each matter within the 3 distinct art units. This variety across 6 distinct examiners ensures diverse feedback.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (50%) |
| §103 only | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, GORDON G | 1 | 82.9% | +14.8% |
| PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +28.4% |
| HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | 1 | 65.5% | +23.9% |
| CHU, DAVID H | 1 | 78.3% | +3.0% |
| YANG, ANDREW GUS | 1 | 69.1% | +7.6% |
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 1 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989900 | COMPUTER PROGRAMS, METHODS, AND SERVER DEVICES | LIU, GORDON G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18223172 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 23d overdue |
| 18129611 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 11d overdue |
| 18216615 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18223172 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 23d overdue |
| 18129611 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 11d overdue |
| 18989900 | COMPUTER PROGRAMS, METHODS, AND SERVER DEVICES | LIU, GORDON G | — |
| 18216615 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 3 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989900 | COMPUTER PROGRAMS, METHODS, AND SERVER DEVICES | LIU, GORDON G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18223172 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18216615 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | 3715 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18216619 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | CHU, DAVID H | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18214895 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | YANG, ANDREW GUS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18129611 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 3715 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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