Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lucid Software Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WU, MING HAN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit.
The portfolio's current activity is concentrated, with the pending action being reviewed by a single examiner in a single art unit. This indicates the current focus of the company's interactions with the patent office. Having 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit shows the technical classification of the Communications technology being pursued. The 1 pending office action assigned to WU, MING HAN represents the current pending workload. This structure results in a focused prosecution strategy within the Communications field. The examiner and art unit assignments provide a specific point of contact for the company's current patent office engagement.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, MING HAN | 1 | 76.8% | +23.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18786112 | AUTOMATIC OBJECT FORMATTING IN DIAGRAMS | WU, MING HAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18786112 | AUTOMATIC OBJECT FORMATTING IN DIAGRAMS | WU, MING HAN | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
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