Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hover Inc. operates in the Communications technology area with 9 pending office actions. These 9 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's filings are reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners.
COFINO, JONATHAN M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 4 busiest examiner pending office actions. These 4 busiest examiner pending office actions represent a significant portion of the total workload. The number of 6 distinct examiners is higher than the 4 distinct art units, suggesting that some art units have multiple examiners assigned to the company's cases.
Practitioners should observe that COFINO, JONATHAN M manages a large share of the 9 pending office actions. The Communications technology area is the primary field for these matters. With 9 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the portfolio shows a concentrated prosecution strategy under COFINO, JONATHAN M within the 4 distinct art units identified.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 4 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | 1 | 85.8% | +12.0% |
| GUO, XILIN | 1 | 81.6% | +18.6% |
| WU, CHONG | 1 | 86.5% | +3.3% |
| SHEN, QUN | 1 | 76.4% | +37.5% |
| CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 1 | 60.1% | +35.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19230715 | DIRECTED IMAGE CAPTURE | MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | — |
| 19030528 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PITCH DETERMINATION | GUO, XILIN | — |
| 18934023 | MODELING, DRIFT DETECTION AND DRIFT CORRECTION FOR VISUAL INERTIAL ODOMETRY | WU, CHONG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19230715 | DIRECTED IMAGE CAPTURE | MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | — |
| 19030528 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PITCH DETERMINATION | GUO, XILIN | — |
| 18956755 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18956807 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18928935 | ESTIMATING DIMENSIONS OF GEO-REFERENCED GROUND-LEVEL IMAGERY USING ORTHOGONAL IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18859062 | METHODS, STORAGE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING AN ANGLE OF A ROOF FACET | SHEN, QUN | — |
| 18809268 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL RECONSTRUCTION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18274717 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE CAPTURE | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19230715 | DIRECTED IMAGE CAPTURE | MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | 2637 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19030528 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PITCH DETERMINATION | GUO, XILIN | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18956755 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18956807 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18934023 | MODELING, DRIFT DETECTION AND DRIFT CORRECTION FOR VISUAL INERTIAL ODOMETRY | WU, CHONG | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18928935 | ESTIMATING DIMENSIONS OF GEO-REFERENCED GROUND-LEVEL IMAGERY USING ORTHOGONAL IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18859062 | METHODS, STORAGE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING AN ANGLE OF A ROOF FACET | SHEN, QUN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18809268 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL RECONSTRUCTION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18274717 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE CAPTURE | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 2671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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