Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novarad Corporation has 8 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. Biao Chen is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
With 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one matter. The presence of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's Communications innovations span multiple specialized examination groups. This breadth of prosecution requires managing relationships across many different sectors of the patent office. Practitioners must coordinate their responses to ensure consistency across the 6 distinct art units involved. The high ratio of examiners to actions means that every pending matter is being reviewed by a unique individual. This decentralized approach can lead to varying prosecution timelines and outcomes depending on the specific examiner assigned to each of the 8 pending office actions. Because Biao Chen is the busiest examiner with only 1 pending action, no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current portfolio.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, BIAO | 1 | 84.6% | +28.6% |
| GRAY, RYAN M | 1 | 87.6% | +11.7% |
| WANG, YUEHAN | 1 | 82.5% | +13.6% |
| LETT, THOMAS J | 1 | 84.0% | -34.9% |
| BROWN, SHEREE N | 1 | 65.6% | +26.6% |
| HESS, MICHAEL J | 1 | 43.3% | +6.5% |
| GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | 1 | 73.6% | +14.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669408 | Alignment of Medical Images in Augmented Reality Displays | WANG, YUEHAN | 99d overdue |
| 18532914 | Referencing of Anatomical Structure | LETT, THOMAS J | 84d overdue |
| 19031208 | Augmented Reality Viewing and Tagging For Medical Procedures | CHEN, BIAO | — |
| 19031291 | Augmenting Real-Time Views of a Patient with Three-Dimensional Data | GRAY, RYAN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669408 | Alignment of Medical Images in Augmented Reality Displays | WANG, YUEHAN | 99d overdue |
| 17536011 | Transfer of Alignment Accuracy Between Visible Markers Used with Augmented Reality Displays | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | 79d overdue |
| 19031208 | Augmented Reality Viewing and Tagging For Medical Procedures | CHEN, BIAO | — |
| 19031291 | Augmenting Real-Time Views of a Patient with Three-Dimensional Data | GRAY, RYAN M | — |
| 18169800 | Alignment Using Two-Part Marker and Image Visible Marker | BROWN, SHEREE N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031208 | Augmented Reality Viewing and Tagging For Medical Procedures | CHEN, BIAO | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19031291 | Augmenting Real-Time Views of a Patient with Three-Dimensional Data | GRAY, RYAN M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18669408 | Alignment of Medical Images in Augmented Reality Displays | WANG, YUEHAN | 2617 | DP | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18532914 | Referencing of Anatomical Structure | LETT, THOMAS J | 2611 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18169800 | Alignment Using Two-Part Marker and Image Visible Marker | BROWN, SHEREE N | 2612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
| 17984178 | Calibration for Augmented Reality | HESS, MICHAEL J | 2481 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
| 17536011 | Transfer of Alignment Accuracy Between Visible Markers Used with Augmented Reality Displays | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | 2619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2021 |
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