Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Niantic, Inc. is currently prosecuting 13 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 13 pending office actions are handled by 13 distinct examiners, resulting in a decentralized prosecution landscape where no cases share the same examiner. This lack of examiner overlap means that the company cannot rely on a single examiner's familiarity with their specific communications technology.
The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units, indicating that the pending office actions cover a broad range of technical classifications within the Communications field. LIU, GORDON G is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, illustrating the even distribution of the workload. Practitioners should be prepared for different perspectives across the 6 distinct art units involved in these proceedings. Each of the distinct examiners will bring their own interpretation to the cases, requiring a unique approach for every application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 9 (64%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, GORDON G | 1 | 82.9% | +14.8% |
| AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 1 | 73.5% | +17.2% |
| BRIER, JEFFERY A | 1 | 77.1% | +8.7% |
| THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 1 | 73.4% | +13.3% |
| SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | 1 | 70.0% | +33.3% |
| SHENG, XIN | 1 | 73.1% | +16.8% |
| WU, MING HAN | 1 | 76.8% | +23.6% |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | — | — |
| TUCKER, WESLEY J | 1 | 83.7% | +5.4% |
| MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052050 | CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING | LIU, GORDON G | — |
| 18781897 | DETERMINING VISUAL OVERLAP OF IMAGES BY USING BOX EMBEDDINGS | TUCKER, WESLEY J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044430 | Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | — |
| 18963979 | STRUCTURE LINE GENERATION FOR USER DEVICE POSE PREDICTION | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
| 18627798 | Two-View Geometry Scoring without Correspondences | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052050 | CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING | LIU, GORDON G | — |
| 19044430 | Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | — |
| 18963979 | STRUCTURE LINE GENERATION FOR USER DEVICE POSE PREDICTION | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
| 18942346 | Adjusting Virtual View in a Mirrored Virtual World | SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | — |
| 18932606 | High-Speed Real-Time Scene Reconstruction from Input Image Data | SHENG, XIN | — |
| 18920496 | LLM-BASED ANIMATION SELECTION FOR AN AR CHARACTER | WU, MING HAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 2 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2618 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052050 | CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING | LIU, GORDON G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19044430 | Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19038575 | OBJECT SCANNING WITH DYNAMIC GUIDANCE | BRIER, JEFFERY A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18963979 | STRUCTURE LINE GENERATION FOR USER DEVICE POSE PREDICTION | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18942346 | Adjusting Virtual View in a Mirrored Virtual World | SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18932606 | High-Speed Real-Time Scene Reconstruction from Input Image Data | SHENG, XIN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18920496 | LLM-BASED ANIMATION SELECTION FOR AN AR CHARACTER | WU, MING HAN | 2618 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18919404 | VOLUMETRIC SCENE RECONSTRUCTION WITH VARIABLE VOXEL RESOLUTION IN TRUNCATED SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION (TSDF) FUSION | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18781897 | DETERMINING VISUAL OVERLAP OF IMAGES BY USING BOX EMBEDDINGS | TUCKER, WESLEY J | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18675607 | LOCATION VERIFICATION THROUGH VISUAL POSITIONING | MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18627798 | Two-View Geometry Scoring without Correspondences | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18597233 | Asynchronous Shared Virtual Experiences | GRAY, RYAN M | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18530189 | Virtual Occlusion Mask Prediction Through Implicit Depth Estimation | HE, WEIMING | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18523795 | SATELLITE MEASUREMENT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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