Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neuchips Corporation manages 2 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These 2 actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the technical focus remains within a single specialized group. This structure suggests that the company's active applications are closely related in technical scope despite being reviewed by different individuals. The presence of 2 pending office actions shows an active effort to secure rights in the computing sector.
The busiest examiner for the company is BUI, KENNY KIM, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each handling a portion of the workload, the portfolio's success depends on meeting the requirements of multiple officials within the same art unit. For a practitioner, this means that while the technical standards of the art unit are consistent, the individual preferences of the 2 examiners must be addressed separately. The outcome of the 2 pending office actions will be determined by how well the company navigates these individual reviews. Maintaining a consistent technical narrative across both cases is essential for the portfolio's success.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUI, KENNY KIM | 1 | 63.6% | +48.3% |
| WAJE, CARLO C | 1 | 68.3% | +33.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17894155 | TOTAL INTERACTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FEATURE INTERACTION MODELING IN RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS | WAJE, CARLO C | 8d overdue |
| 18076407 | MATRIX COMPUTING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | BUI, KENNY KIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17894155 | TOTAL INTERACTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FEATURE INTERACTION MODELING IN RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS | WAJE, CARLO C | 8d overdue |
| 18076407 | MATRIX COMPUTING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | BUI, KENNY KIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2151 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18076407 | MATRIX COMPUTING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | BUI, KENNY KIM | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17894155 | TOTAL INTERACTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FEATURE INTERACTION MODELING IN RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS | WAJE, CARLO C | 2151 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
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