Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ichikoh Industries Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. These 3 actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The concentration in 2 distinct art units despite having 3 distinct examiners suggests some technical overlap between the pending cases, even though they are being reviewed by different individuals.
The use of 3 distinct examiners for 3 actions means that the company must manage three different prosecution styles. However, because these actions are located within only 2 distinct art units, there is some concentration at the unit level. This requires a strategy that maintains technical consistency across the 2 art units while adapting to the individual preferences of each examiner. Because each examiner only handles 1 pending office action, no single person has a dominant influence over the portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the 2 art units while being prepared for the unique perspectives of 3 different examiners. This profile reflects a technically focused but personnel-diverse prosecution landscape.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 1 | 65.4% | +18.8% |
| TRUONG, BAO Q | 1 | 83.4% | +13.5% |
| HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 1 | 55.6% | -3.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19165806 | LAMP UNIT AND VEHICLE LAMP | TRUONG, BAO Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104889 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TEMPORARY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19472875 | VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | — |
| 19165806 | LAMP UNIT AND VEHICLE LAMP | TRUONG, BAO Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 2 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19472875 | VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19165806 | LAMP UNIT AND VEHICLE LAMP | TRUONG, BAO Q | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19104889 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TEMPORARY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 3668 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
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