Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nice North America LLC is active in the Communications technology area, with 3 pending office actions currently in progress. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. SUN, JIANGENG is listed as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's Communications portfolio is being evaluated by several different groups within the patent office. Each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling a single pending office action, as evidenced by SUN, JIANGENG having 1 pending action. This 1-to-1 ratio of actions to examiners and art units suggests a diverse prosecution strategy where each matter is handled by a different individual in a different organizational unit. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution of each application is likely to be an independent experience, with little opportunity to apply specific examiner insights from 1 pending case to another within the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, JIANGENG | 1 | 82.3% | +13.4% |
| CADEAU, WEDNEL | 1 | 71.8% | +19.2% |
| BALI, VIKKRAM | 1 | 81.5% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17529633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT TRACKING USING FEATURE-BASED SIMILARITIES | BALI, VIKKRAM | 30d |
| 18762375 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACCURATELY RECOGNIZING VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES | SUN, JIANGENG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17529633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT TRACKING USING FEATURE-BASED SIMILARITIES | BALI, VIKKRAM | 30d |
| 18347322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND RECOGNIZING A RAILCAR IDENTIFIER | CADEAU, WEDNEL | 61d |
| 18762375 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACCURATELY RECOGNIZING VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES | SUN, JIANGENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2671 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18762375 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACCURATELY RECOGNIZING VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES | SUN, JIANGENG | 2671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18347322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND RECOGNIZING A RAILCAR IDENTIFIER | CADEAU, WEDNEL | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 17529633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT TRACKING USING FEATURE-BASED SIMILARITIES | BALI, VIKKRAM | 2663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Nov 18, 2021 |
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