Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Ionx Networks Limited currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active matter is being processed through 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. Such a concentrated prosecution profile suggests that the company is currently focused on a specific technical advancement within this sector. The alignment of 1 pending office action to 1 distinct art unit indicates a lack of jurisdictional complexity at the patent office for the company's current filings. This allows the legal team to focus resources on a single technical classification rather than managing diverging requirements across multiple units.
JOHN CHUNYANG KUAN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the only active case, the company's immediate prosecution success is entirely dependent on the specific examination style and procedural requirements of this individual. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner involved, any feedback received will set the tone for the company's current intellectual property strategy in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area. The focus on a single official within the designated art unit allows for a highly targeted response strategy. This concentration simplifies the coordination of arguments but increases the impact of this examiner's specific preferences on the overall portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 1 | 72.3% | +47.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498910 | BUILDING HEIGHT DETERMINATION | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498910 | BUILDING HEIGHT DETERMINATION | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18498910 | BUILDING HEIGHT DETERMINATION | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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