Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
HiDeep Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio of 4 pending actions indicates an active effort to secure patent rights for its communications innovations. The company's focus on the Communications sector is the main driver of its current patent prosecution activity, reflecting its commitment to protecting its technological designs in a competitive market.
The applications are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, each case is assigned to a different individual at the patent office. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that every one of the 4 pending office actions is being evaluated by a different specialized group, requiring the company to navigate various departmental standards and procedural requirements.
EDUN, MUHAMMAD N is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 4 total pending office actions, the workload is evenly spread among the 4 distinct examiners. This distribution across 4 distinct art units means the company must account for the specific standards and tendencies of four different examiners and departments to advance its 4 total pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDUN, MUHAMMAD N | 1 | 91.5% | -4.9% |
| PATEL, SANJIV D | 1 | 78.1% | +3.8% |
| YANG, NAN-YING | 1 | 77.9% | +8.6% |
| KETEMA, BENYAM | 1 | 65.8% | +10.1% |
| FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | 1 | 68.6% | +14.9% |
| MANDEVILLE, JASON M | 1 | 55.4% | +46.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19560363 | STYLUS PEN | EDUN, MUHAMMAD N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220509 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | KETEMA, BENYAM | 40d |
| 18673951 | TOUCH INPUT DEVICE | MANDEVILLE, JASON M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220509 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | KETEMA, BENYAM | 40d |
| 18966207 | TOUCH INPUT DEVICE | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | — |
| 18673951 | TOUCH INPUT DEVICE | MANDEVILLE, JASON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2629 | 2 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19560363 | STYLUS PEN | EDUN, MUHAMMAD N | 2629 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2026 |
| 19380028 | TOUCH SENSOR AND TOUCH INPUT DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | PATEL, SANJIV D | 2625 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19332368 | STYLUS PEN, ANTENNA MODULE, TOUCH SENSOR, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | YANG, NAN-YING | 2629 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19220509 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | KETEMA, BENYAM | 2626 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18966207 | TOUCH INPUT DEVICE | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | 2622 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18673951 | TOUCH INPUT DEVICE | MANDEVILLE, JASON M | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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