Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hrbeauty LLC has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, HU, RUI MENG. The prosecution is currently localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused area of activity for the company's patent portfolio.
HU, RUI MENG is the busiest examiner for the company, holding a busiest examiner pending action. This action accounts for the portfolio's pending office actions. The concentration of all active matters under a distinct examiner and art unit simplifies the prosecution landscape. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific examination style and preferences of HU, RUI MENG.
The presence of the distinct art unit indicates that the company's Communications filings are being reviewed by a technical group. This allows for a targeted legal strategy. Since there are no other pending actions or examiners to consider, the success of the current portfolio depends on the resolution of the matter before HU, RUI MENG. This streamlined profile allows for efficient resource allocation during the prosecution process.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HU, RUI MENG | 1 | 66.9% | +24.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072116 | CASE FOR A MOBILE TELEPHONE | HU, RUI MENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072116 | CASE FOR A MOBILE TELEPHONE | HU, RUI MENG | 2643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
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