Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jdc Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating a relatively broad prosecution front for the company. This distribution suggests that the company's current innovations in transportation and mechanical systems are being evaluated by several different technical experts at the patent office. The presence of 4 pending office actions shows a moderate level of ongoing activity in securing intellectual property rights.
Alfred H Tsui is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The prosecution activity is spread across 3 distinct art units. This concentration means that 2 of the 4 pending office actions are handled by a single examiner, while the remaining actions are split among others. The distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's transportation and mechanical filings cover several different technical sub-sectors. For practitioners, this requires managing multiple examiner relationships simultaneously while focusing on Alfred H Tsui as a key figure in the portfolio's current progress. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units highlights the need for a diversified prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSUI, ALFRED H | 2 | 32.7% | +32.8% |
| FURGASON, KAREN LYNELLE | 1 | 32.5% | +25.0% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 46.3% | +54.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18041786 | Construction Machine | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3d overdue |
| 17911623 | Disinfection Device, Vehicle, And Construction Machine | LEE, AHAM NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018818 | Operation Control Method | FURGASON, KAREN LYNELLE | 45d overdue |
| 18041786 | Construction Machine | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3d overdue |
| 18252454 | Construction Machine | TSUI, ALFRED H | — |
| 17911623 | Disinfection Device, Vehicle, And Construction Machine | LEE, AHAM NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18252454 | Construction Machine | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18041786 | Construction Machine | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
| 18018818 | Operation Control Method | FURGASON, KAREN LYNELLE | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17911623 | Disinfection Device, Vehicle, And Construction Machine | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
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