Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Obsess Inc. is currently navigating the patent prosecution process within the Communications technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions, which are distributed across 2 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the portfolio is facing independent scrutiny from different individuals at the USPTO, rather than being concentrated under a single reviewing officer. Such a spread requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for multiple distinct examination styles and potential variations in procedural requirements.
The technical breadth of these filings is further evidenced by the involvement of 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's intellectual property spans multiple specialized classifications within its primary technology area, necessitating a broad understanding of different examination standards. WEI, XIAOMING is noted as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. For patent practitioners, this spread across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a coordinated effort to ensure that arguments remain consistent across the different technical groups involved in the review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEI, XIAOMING | 1 | 82.0% | +17.3% |
| PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT | 1 | 69.6% | +19.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656409 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GENERATE AN INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT USING A 3D MODEL AND CUBE MAPS | WEI, XIAOMING | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646351 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES TO GENERATE INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS | PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT | 8d |
| 18656409 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GENERATE AN INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT USING A 3D MODEL AND CUBE MAPS | WEI, XIAOMING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18656409 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GENERATE AN INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT USING A 3D MODEL AND CUBE MAPS | WEI, XIAOMING | 2611 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18646351 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES TO GENERATE INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS | PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
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