Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Horizon (Shanghai) Artificial Intelligence Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. The company is currently navigating the patent office through 2 distinct examiners. This workload is also spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different specialized unit. Such a distribution suggests that the company's software innovations are being categorized into separate technical niches within the broader software field.
HOANG, KEN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The parity between the count of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests a fragmented prosecution landscape for these specific technologies. Practitioners must manage these 2 distinct examiners separately, as the data shows no overlap that would allow for consolidated interviews or consistent examiner-specific arguments across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOANG, KEN | 1 | 72.5% | +31.2% |
| KRIEGER, JONAH C | 1 | 85.3% | +7.2% |
| NGUYEN, CHAU T | 1 | 67.7% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18366768 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR MEMORY ACCESSING MEMORY, AND MEDIUM | KRIEGER, JONAH C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17468136 | NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION METHOD, DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | NGUYEN, CHAU T | 40d |
| 18499646 | SHORTEST PATH DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HOANG, KEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17468136 | NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION METHOD, DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | NGUYEN, CHAU T | 40d |
| 18499646 | SHORTEST PATH DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HOANG, KEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2168 | 1 |
| 2133 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18499646 | SHORTEST PATH DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HOANG, KEN | 2168 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18366768 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR MEMORY ACCESSING MEMORY, AND MEDIUM | KRIEGER, JONAH C | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 17468136 | NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION METHOD, DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | NGUYEN, CHAU T | 2145 | §101 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialHorizon (Shanghai) Artificial Intelligence Technology Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Ken Hoang has the most, with 1 of Horizon (Shanghai) Artificial Intelligence Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
