Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. YU CHEN is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. The spread across different examiners and art units suggests a diverse range of inquiries even within a small number of pending actions.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions means that each case is being reviewed by a different person. Furthermore, the involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the technical subject matter within the Communications area is varied enough to be assigned to different specialized groups. YU CHEN is one of the 2 examiners, and his 1 pending office action is part of the company's current pending workload.
For a practitioner, this data shows that the company's prosecution is not centralized. Each of the 2 pending office actions requires a unique approach tailored to a specific examiner and a specific art unit. The diversity in art units suggests that the Communications technology being patented covers different sub-sectors, requiring a broad understanding of different examination standards. The involvement of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners provides multiple points of contact within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, YU | 1 | 67.9% | +29.6% |
| AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 1 | 73.5% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743530 | LOCATION BASED IMMERSIVE CONTENT SYSTEM | CHEN, YU | 1d overdue |
| 18500976 | FLEXIBLE PARAMETERIZATION OF ARBITRARY DISPLAY SURFACES FOR IN-CAMERA VISUAL EFFECTS | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18743530 | LOCATION BASED IMMERSIVE CONTENT SYSTEM | CHEN, YU | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18500976 | FLEXIBLE PARAMETERIZATION OF ARBITRARY DISPLAY SURFACES FOR IN-CAMERA VISUAL EFFECTS | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
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