Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
MediaTek Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. YI, ALEXANDER J. is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending action.
The spread of actions across different art units suggests a broad range of communications technologies being pursued. With 3 pending office actions each assigned to a different examiner, the company prosecution strategy is currently decentralized across multiple technical and administrative divisions of the patent office. This indicates that each examiner is reviewing a unique technical aspect of the portfolio.
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 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 1 | 71.5% | +29.1% |
| YI, ALEXANDER J. | 1 | 68.4% | +55.7% |
| KARIKARI, KWASI | 1 | 80.2% | +6.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18641647 | METHOD FOR INDICATING DISCONTINUOUS SATELLITE COVERAGE AND USER EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME | KARIKARI, KWASI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18733018 | METHOD FOR HANDLING REGISTRATION AND SERVICE REQUEST PROCEDURES FOR LOCALIZED SERVICE CHANGE BETWEEN MET AND NOT MET | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | — |
| 18733115 | METHOD FOR HANDLING 5GMM PROCEDURE FOR CAG VALIDITY CHANGES BETWEEN MET AND NOT MET | YI, ALEXANDER J. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2647 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18733018 | METHOD FOR HANDLING REGISTRATION AND SERVICE REQUEST PROCEDURES FOR LOCALIZED SERVICE CHANGE BETWEEN MET AND NOT MET | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 2647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18733115 | METHOD FOR HANDLING 5GMM PROCEDURE FOR CAG VALIDITY CHANGES BETWEEN MET AND NOT MET | YI, ALEXANDER J. | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18641647 | METHOD FOR INDICATING DISCONTINUOUS SATELLITE COVERAGE AND USER EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME | KARIKARI, KWASI | 2641 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
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