Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Montage Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. The high number of art units relative to the total actions suggests a diverse array of software-related technologies being pursued by the company.
ELAHIAN, DANIEL is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because each of the 5 distinct examiners holds only 1 action, the workload is distributed equally across the portfolio. This arrangement involves 4 distinct art units, requiring the company to navigate multiple examination environments simultaneously within the Computing & Software sector.
The distribution of 5 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units indicates that almost every action is being reviewed by a different specialized group. This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the varying standards and practices of 5 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELAHIAN, DANIEL | 1 | 74.4% | +52.4% |
| CLEARY, THOMAS J | 1 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
| SPRATT, BEAU D | 1 | 78.8% | +24.3% |
| TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN | 1 | 45.5% | +32.7% |
| GHAFFARI, ABU Z | 1 | 79.1% | +47.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING REGISTERS OF A DEVICE | CLEARY, THOMAS J | 57d |
| 18629007 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF MODEL QUANTIFICATION | SPRATT, BEAU D | — |
| 18056242 | TASK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS USED IN MULTI-TANK SCENARIO | GHAFFARI, ABU Z | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING REGISTERS OF A DEVICE | CLEARY, THOMAS J | 57d |
| 18826147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEMORY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ELAHIAN, DANIEL | — |
| 18629007 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF MODEL QUANTIFICATION | SPRATT, BEAU D | — |
| 18129098 | MULTI-PROCESSING ACCELERATING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON ELECTRONIC-SYSTEM-LEVEL VIRTUAL PLATFORM | TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN | — |
| 18056242 | TASK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS USED IN MULTI-TANK SCENARIO | GHAFFARI, ABU Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2407 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2100 | 1 |
| 2195 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18826147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEMORY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ELAHIAN, DANIEL | 2407 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18752030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING REGISTERS OF A DEVICE | CLEARY, THOMAS J | 2175 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18629007 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF MODEL QUANTIFICATION | SPRATT, BEAU D | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18129098 | MULTI-PROCESSING ACCELERATING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON ELECTRONIC-SYSTEM-LEVEL VIRTUAL PLATFORM | TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN | 2100 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18056242 | TASK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS USED IN MULTI-TANK SCENARIO | GHAFFARI, ABU Z | 2195 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
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