Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nexon Korea Corporation has 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, meaning each active application is being reviewed by a different individual. These examiners are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations are being processed in several different technical groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is THOMAS, ERIC M, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with no single examiner managing more than one case. This distribution across 4 distinct art units requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships and navigate the specific requirements of different technical divisions simultaneously.
For practitioners, the presence of 7 distinct examiners for 7 pending office actions highlights a lack of examiner concentration. Each case likely requires a unique approach tailored to the individual examiner's style, even though they are grouped within 4 distinct art units. This balance between examiner variety and art unit focus is a key feature of the company's current prosecution landscape in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 only | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 1 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
| ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 1 | 16.1% | +67.6% |
| EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | 1 | 37.4% | +28.9% |
| SMITH, LINDSEY B | 1 | 51.5% | +54.3% |
| MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 1 | 24.8% | +25.0% |
| GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | 1 | 76.8% | +18.4% |
| RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 1 | 49.3% | +52.9% |
| WILLIAMS, ROSS A | 1 | 61.5% | +17.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18884769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | SMITH, LINDSEY B | 45d overdue |
| 18661973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | 29d |
| 18895977 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CREATOR CAMPAIGNS | EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | 42d |
| 19076580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | THOMAS, ERIC M | — |
| 18955524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
| 18744350 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18884769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | SMITH, LINDSEY B | 45d overdue |
| 18178391 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | WILLIAMS, ROSS A | 9d |
| 18661973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | 29d |
| 18656187 | BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CHARACTER TRADING APPARATUS AND METHOD | RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 34d |
| 18895977 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CREATOR CAMPAIGNS | EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | 42d |
| 19076580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | THOMAS, ERIC M | — |
| 18955524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
| 18744350 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | THOMAS, ERIC M | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18955524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18895977 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CREATOR CAMPAIGNS | EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18884769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | SMITH, LINDSEY B | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18744350 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18661973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | 3715 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18656187 | BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CHARACTER TRADING APPARATUS AND METHOD | RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 3697 | §112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18178391 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING GAME SERVICE | WILLIAMS, ROSS A | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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