Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Luxshare Precision Industry Company Limited is managing 13 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct art units, showing that the company's material science innovations are being evaluated by several different technical groups at the USPTO. The prosecution is handled by 13 distinct examiners, which means that every single pending action is assigned to a different individual.
The busiest examiner, GEHMAN, BRYON P, has only 1 pending office action, which matches the count for all other examiners in this portfolio. This one-to-one ratio between the 13 pending actions and 13 distinct examiners indicates a completely decentralized prosecution process. There is no concentration of cases under a single examiner, which prevents the company from using a consolidated strategy for multiple pending matters.
With 7 distinct art units involved, the 13 pending office actions are subject to the varying procedural standards of different USPTO divisions. The fact that GEHMAN, BRYON P holds only 1 pending action underscores the need for the company to engage with 13 different examiners independently. This distribution requires a versatile legal strategy to address the unique requirements of each examiner within the Chemistry & Materials field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 6 (46%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.8% | +30.6% |
| HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 1 | 81.4% | +6.1% |
| PANNELL, MARK G | 1 | 74.5% | +14.7% |
| DIAZ, SABRINA | 1 | 73.8% | +22.9% |
| TRISCHLER, JOHN T | 1 | 68.3% | +21.5% |
| CEFARATTI, JOSEPH ARTHUR | 1 | — | — |
| DYE, ROBERT C | 1 | 63.4% | +11.4% |
| VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | 1 | 77.6% | +11.8% |
| MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | 55.0% | +54.5% |
| LOUIE, PHILIP Y | 1 | 60.3% | +36.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911073 | TEMPERATURE DETECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | — |
| 18505108 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE WITH IMPROVED BATTERY RETENTION | VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | — |
| 18387826 | ATOMIZING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | — |
| 18378081 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL ATOMIZATION DEVICE | DANG, KET D | — |
| 18119989 | PROTECTION APPARATUS | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775802 | BLUETOOTH EARHOOK MICROPHONE APPARATUS AND NOTIFICATION METHOD THEREOF | DIAZ, SABRINA | 10d overdue |
| 18377981 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | LOUIE, PHILIP Y | 56d |
| 18505046 | DETACHABLE ATOMIZATION DEVICE WITH IMPROVED SEALING PERFORMANCE | DYE, ROBERT C | 57d |
| 19221266 | PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND PROCESSING METHOD OF A PACKAGING STRUCTURE | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| 18890057 | DETERMINATION METHOD OF HANDOVER MECHANISM AND DETERMINATION SYSTEM OF HANDOVER MECHANISM | PANNELL, MARK G | — |
| 18620747 | CHARGING PILE | TRISCHLER, JOHN T | — |
| 18505108 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE WITH IMPROVED BATTERY RETENTION | VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | — |
| 18387826 | ATOMIZING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19221266 | PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND PROCESSING METHOD OF A PACKAGING STRUCTURE | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18911073 | TEMPERATURE DETECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18890057 | DETERMINATION METHOD OF HANDOVER MECHANISM AND DETERMINATION SYSTEM OF HANDOVER MECHANISM | PANNELL, MARK G | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18775802 | BLUETOOTH EARHOOK MICROPHONE APPARATUS AND NOTIFICATION METHOD THEREOF | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18620747 | CHARGING PILE | TRISCHLER, JOHN T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18591739 | HEAT-NOT-BURN CARTRIDGE | CEFARATTI, JOSEPH ARTHUR | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18505046 | DETACHABLE ATOMIZATION DEVICE WITH IMPROVED SEALING PERFORMANCE | DYE, ROBERT C | 3619 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18505108 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE WITH IMPROVED BATTERY RETENTION | VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18387826 | ATOMIZING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18377981 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | LOUIE, PHILIP Y | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18378081 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL ATOMIZATION DEVICE | DANG, KET D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18210357 | BATTERY MODULE AND ATOMIZER | ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18119989 | PROTECTION APPARATUS | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
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