Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
NTT Technocross Corporation currently faces 8 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio is widely distributed across 6 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations span a broad range of technical classifications within the communications sector. The prosecution workload involves 7 distinct examiners, which requires the applicant to manage a high volume of unique examiner interactions and varying procedural styles.
VO, HUYEN X is the busiest examiner for this company, responsible for 2 pending office actions. This is the only instance of examiner overlap, as the remaining actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. The diversity of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's patent strategy must account for a wide array of perspectives and technical expertise across the patent office. VO, HUYEN X handles 2 of the pending office actions, and highlights the complexity of managing 8 pending office actions in this decentralized manner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 4 (44%) |
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HUYEN X | 2 | 83.4% | +19.9% |
| TESHALE, AKELAW | 1 | 82.1% | +16.0% |
| COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 75.8% | +15.3% |
| SHIBEROU, MAHELET | 1 | 73.6% | +26.5% |
| AUSTIN, JAMIE H | 1 | 24.8% | +33.2% |
| GAY, SONIA L | 1 | 82.4% | +11.3% |
| SERROU, ABDELALI | 1 | 74.2% | +29.8% |
| AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S | 1 | 77.8% | +11.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839418 | HANDLING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, HANDLING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM | GAY, SONIA L | 3d overdue |
| 18879000 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
| 18839765 | EMOTION INFORMATION UTILIZATION DEVICE, EMOTION INFORMATION UTILIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | VO, HUYEN X | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832147 | DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SERROU, ABDELALI | 12d |
| 18995730 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | VO, HUYEN X | — |
| 18847177 | RESPONSE QUALITY EVALUATION DEVICE, RESPONSE QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SHIBEROU, MAHELET | — |
| 18839768 | SUPPORT APPARATUS, SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | AUSTIN, JAMIE H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722291 | VISUALIZED INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS, VISUALIZED INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S | 8d overdue |
| 18839418 | HANDLING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, HANDLING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM | GAY, SONIA L | 3d overdue |
| 18832147 | DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SERROU, ABDELALI | 12d |
| 18995730 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | VO, HUYEN X | — |
| 18879000 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
| 18695763 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18847177 | RESPONSE QUALITY EVALUATION DEVICE, RESPONSE QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SHIBEROU, MAHELET | — |
| 18839765 | EMOTION INFORMATION UTILIZATION DEVICE, EMOTION INFORMATION UTILIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | VO, HUYEN X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18995730 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | VO, HUYEN X | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18879000 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | TESHALE, AKELAW | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18695763 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18847177 | RESPONSE QUALITY EVALUATION DEVICE, RESPONSE QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SHIBEROU, MAHELET | 2171 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18839765 | EMOTION INFORMATION UTILIZATION DEVICE, EMOTION INFORMATION UTILIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | VO, HUYEN X | 2656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18839768 | SUPPORT APPARATUS, SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | AUSTIN, JAMIE H | 3625 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18839418 | HANDLING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, HANDLING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM | GAY, SONIA L | 2657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2024 |
| 18832147 | DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SERROU, ABDELALI | 2659 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18722291 | VISUALIZED INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS, VISUALIZED INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S | 2693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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