Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merry Electronics(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions concentrated in the Communications technology area. These actions are being handled by 4 distinct examiners, resulting in a highly distributed prosecution landscape where each examiner is responsible for a pending matter. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 2 distinct art units, suggesting that while the examiners are diverse, the technical subject matter remains within a narrow administrative range.
The busiest examiner, BRINEY III, WALTER F, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With the pending office actions spread across distinct examiners, the company faces a variety of examination styles simultaneously. This lack of examiner overlap across the pending office actions means that successful strategies in one case may not directly translate to others, despite the shared focus on Communications. The involvement of 2 distinct art units further suggests that the portfolio is navigating specific sub-sectors of the communications field. Managing these pending office actions with distinct examiners requires a versatile approach to address the unique perspectives of each official.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRINEY III, WALTER F | 1 | 65.5% | +3.9% |
| PAUL, DISLER | 1 | 82.2% | +8.6% |
| KHALIFA, MOATAZ | 1 | 90.9% | +2.3% |
| BERMUDEZ, CHARLENE | 1 | 36.9% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646772 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | KHALIFA, MOATAZ | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985032 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUDIO PROCESSING | PAUL, DISLER | — |
| 18507096 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE | BERMUDEZ, CHARLENE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507096 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE | BERMUDEZ, CHARLENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000744 | WIRELESS HEADSET | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18985032 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUDIO PROCESSING | PAUL, DISLER | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18646772 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | KHALIFA, MOATAZ | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18507096 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE | BERMUDEZ, CHARLENE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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