Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
H-Next GmbH currently has 1 pending office action under review at the patent office. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner, while the data shows 0 distinct art units associated with the current pending status. This concentrated profile suggests that the company is focusing its immediate resources on a single patent application rather than a broad portfolio of filings.
KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned to him. As the sole examiner listed, his individual review process is the primary factor in the company's current patent acquisition timeline. The absence of multiple examiners or art units simplifies the coordination of the legal strategy, as there is only 1 pending office action to manage.
The focus on 1 distinct examiner indicates a singular point of contact for all current prosecution inquiries. Because there are 0 distinct art units reported, the technical classification of this work is highly centralized. This active matter represents the entirety of the company's active engagement with the examination corps at this time.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 1 | 72.5% | +47.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712744 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNAL PATTERN RECOGNITION | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712744 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNAL PATTERN RECOGNITION | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712744 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNAL PATTERN RECOGNITION | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialH-Next GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
John Chunyang Kuan has the most, with 1 of H-Next GmbH's pending office actions.