Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hand Held Products Inc. has 11 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 11 actions are distributed among 11 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently handling a matter for the company. The portfolio is active across 8 distinct art units, showing concentration within its technology sector. MAI, THIEN T is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
This distribution indicates that no examiner has a dominant influence over the pending portfolio. With 11 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, the prosecution team must coordinate across several different groups at the USPTO. The matching count of 11 pending office actions and 11 distinct examiners highlights a lack of examiner-specific clustering in the current pipeline. Because the 11 actions are spread across 8 distinct art units, the company faces a variety of examination environments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 5 (42%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, THIEN T | 1 | 59.2% | +19.8% |
| SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | 1 | 76.9% | +17.0% |
| WALSH, DANIEL I | 1 | 64.3% | +12.0% |
| MCMILLION, TRACEY M | 1 | 87.9% | +2.3% |
| WECKER, JENNIFER | 1 | 71.0% | +36.1% |
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +12.4% |
| ZAMAN, FAISAL M | 1 | 67.2% | +13.5% |
| BASOM, BLAINE T | 1 | 43.2% | +20.8% |
| ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 1 | 55.1% | +3.6% |
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.3% | +29.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269814 | RFID COUPLER AND ASSOCIATED RFID ENABLED DEVICE | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | 14d |
| 19408571 | CONFIGURABLE DOCKING DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEMS | MAI, THIEN T | — |
| 18957006 | PRINTHEAD FOR A PRINTING APPARATUS | MCMILLION, TRACEY M | — |
| 18811632 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE TESTING | WECKER, JENNIFER | — |
| 18796112 | LOGISTIC SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
| 18478480 | MULTIMODAL ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| 17143548 | DEVICE DROP DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING | ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775635 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ACTIVATING OR DEACTIVATING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER | ZAMAN, FAISAL M | 44d overdue |
| 18774319 | MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH DATA COGNITION SOFTWARE | BASOM, BLAINE T | 3d overdue |
| 19269814 | RFID COUPLER AND ASSOCIATED RFID ENABLED DEVICE | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | 14d |
| 19408571 | CONFIGURABLE DOCKING DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEMS | MAI, THIEN T | — |
| 19251478 | INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FOR CONSUMER DEVICE BASED SCANNING AND MOBILITY | WALSH, DANIEL I | — |
| 18811632 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE TESTING | WECKER, JENNIFER | — |
| 18796112 | LOGISTIC SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
| 18478480 | MULTIMODAL ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 3 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2141 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2128 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19408571 | CONFIGURABLE DOCKING DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEMS | MAI, THIEN T | 2876 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19269814 | RFID COUPLER AND ASSOCIATED RFID ENABLED DEVICE | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | 2876 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19251478 | INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FOR CONSUMER DEVICE BASED SCANNING AND MOBILITY | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 18957006 | PRINTHEAD FOR A PRINTING APPARATUS | MCMILLION, TRACEY M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18811632 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE TESTING | WECKER, JENNIFER | 1797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18796112 | LOGISTIC SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18775635 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ACTIVATING OR DEACTIVATING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER | ZAMAN, FAISAL M | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18774319 | MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH DATA COGNITION SOFTWARE | BASOM, BLAINE T | 2141 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18598578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT IMPROPER MEDIA LOADING | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18478480 | MULTIMODAL ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1729 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18225889 | ROBOTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREOF | VISCARRA, RICARDO I | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 17143548 | DEVICE DROP DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING | ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY | 2128 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2021 |
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