Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Life365 Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. Unlike more distributed portfolios, all 3 actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, XUXING CHEN. This concentration means that the entirety of the company's current prosecution efforts is subject to the review of a single individual. This allows for a highly consistent strategy across all pending matters, as the applicant only needs to address the specific concerns and stylistic preferences of one examiner.
The applications are located within 1 distinct art unit, reinforcing the technical focus of the pending docket. XUXING CHEN is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 3 busiest examiner pending actions. For the practitioner, this creates a significant opportunity to develop a consistent rapport and understanding of the examiner's specific concerns, as the outcomes for all pending matters are tied to this single relationship. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the applicant can focus their prior art research and legal arguments on a very specific area of software patent law, potentially streamlining the response process for all 3 pending office actions.
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 (33%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, XUXING | 3 | 86.1% | +11.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083084 | HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | 50d overdue |
| 19083837 | METHOD OF USE FOR HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082933 | METHODS OF USE FOR HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | 60d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082933 | METHODS OF USE FOR HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | 60d overdue |
| 19083084 | HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | 50d overdue |
| 19083837 | METHOD OF USE FOR HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2176 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19083837 | METHOD OF USE FOR HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | 2176 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19083084 | HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | 2176 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19082933 | METHODS OF USE FOR HEALTH MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE | CHEN, XUXING | 2176 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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