Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Linden Research Inc. is managing 5 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. The portfolio shows significant diversity in its examination path, as these actions are spread across 5 distinct art units and multiple distinct examiners. This high level of dispersion indicates that the company's patent applications cover a broad range of technical sub-sectors within the Communications field.
This distribution means that every pending matter is being evaluated by a different individual in a different technical group. COFINO, JONATHAN M is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because each examiner holds a particular action, the company faces a broad range of examiner behaviors and art unit norms. Managing 5 pending office actions across 5 distinct art units requires a versatile prosecution strategy to address the varied requirements of each examiner. This decentralized structure prevents any single art unit from becoming a bottleneck for the company's Communications technology goals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| HERZOG, MADHURI R | 1 | 78.3% | +12.4% |
| SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 1 | 27.2% | +21.2% |
| AVERY, JEREMIAH L | 1 | 82.9% | +15.6% |
| SUN, HAI TAO | 1 | 73.6% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18054758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL PUBLICATION OF USER CONTENT IN A VIRTUAL WORLD | AVERY, JEREMIAH L | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17409622 | Virtual Reality Presentation of Eye Movement and Eye Contact | SUN, HAI TAO | 46d overdue |
| 18150416 | Scalable Systems and Methods to Transfer Control of Virtual Objects of a Virtual World Implemented on Multiple Hosts | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 4d 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17409622 | Virtual Reality Presentation of Eye Movement and Eye Contact | SUN, HAI TAO | 46d overdue |
| 18150416 | Scalable Systems and Methods to Transfer Control of Virtual Objects of a Virtual World Implemented on Multiple Hosts | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 4d overdue |
| 18364391 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL ACCESS TO COMPONENTS OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 5d |
| 18054758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL PUBLICATION OF USER CONTENT IN A VIRTUAL WORLD | AVERY, JEREMIAH L | 33d |
| 18817673 | VIRTUAL REALITY PRESENTATION OF CLOTHING FITTED ON AVATARS | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18817673 | VIRTUAL REALITY PRESENTATION OF CLOTHING FITTED ON AVATARS | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18364391 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL ACCESS TO COMPONENTS OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 2438 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18150416 | Scalable Systems and Methods to Transfer Control of Virtual Objects of a Virtual World Implemented on Multiple Hosts | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 3689 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 18054758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL PUBLICATION OF USER CONTENT IN A VIRTUAL WORLD | AVERY, JEREMIAH L | 2431 | DP | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
| 17409622 | Virtual Reality Presentation of Eye Movement and Eye Contact | SUN, HAI TAO | 2616 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2021 |
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