Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hsbc Software Development (Guangdong) Limited has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The distribution of 4 examiners for 4 actions indicates that each pending matter is receiving an independent review from a different individual.
FELTEN, DANIEL S is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. Although there are 4 distinct examiners, they are grouped within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while individual examiner perspectives will vary, the 4 pending office actions are being evaluated within a limited number of departmental frameworks. This structure allows the company to monitor trends across 2 art units while addressing the specific requirements of 4 different examiners.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, DON GORDON | 1 | 87.3% | +16.3% |
| FELTEN, DANIEL S | 1 | 46.4% | +12.4% |
| BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 1 | 51.3% | +35.1% |
| DOAN, NGHIA M | 1 | 87.0% | +16.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18519617 | Adaptive Diversity-Based Quantum Circuit Architecture Search | DOAN, NGHIA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880546 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING NETWORK CONSENSUS ALGORITHM | ZHAO, DON GORDON | — |
| 18404169 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTUM MONTE CARLO PROCESSING | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880546 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING NETWORK CONSENSUS ALGORITHM | ZHAO, DON GORDON | — |
| 18880548 | TRANSACTION SECURITY FOR MULTI-TIER TRANSACTION NETWORKS | FELTEN, DANIEL S | — |
| 18404169 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTUM MONTE CARLO PROCESSING | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | — |
| 18519617 | Adaptive Diversity-Based Quantum Circuit Architecture Search | DOAN, NGHIA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880546 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING NETWORK CONSENSUS ALGORITHM | ZHAO, DON GORDON | 2493 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18880548 | TRANSACTION SECURITY FOR MULTI-TIER TRANSACTION NETWORKS | FELTEN, DANIEL S | 3692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18404169 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTUM MONTE CARLO PROCESSING | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18519617 | Adaptive Diversity-Based Quantum Circuit Architecture Search | DOAN, NGHIA M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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