Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
King.com Limited maintains a company patent portfolio that currently features 2 pending office actions. This volume indicates a focused prosecution effort. The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners. This means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's outcomes are not yet tied to the specific habits of a single examiner. The prosecution strategy for King.com Limited is currently defined by the interactions with this examiner group.
VANG, MENG is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents half of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. The data reports 0 distinct art units, which may indicate a specific administrative status for these filings. Understanding the specific examination style of VANG, MENG is a priority for resolving the current workload. Practitioners should focus on the individual requirements of each examiner to advance the 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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANG, MENG | 1 | 78.2% | +26.9% |
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 1 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED GAME | THOMAS, ERIC M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA | VANG, MENG | — |
| 18960417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED GAME | THOMAS, ERIC M | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19013572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA | VANG, MENG | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18960417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED GAME | THOMAS, ERIC M | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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