Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 2 of 3 (67%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Openal Opco LLC is managing 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure shows that the company's software-related filings are being evaluated by multiple teams within the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers different sub-sectors of computing technology, requiring distinct prosecution approaches for each unit.
The busiest examiner, YEW, CHIE W, is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending actions in total, each of the examiners is responsible for a single case. This distribution means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the pending office actions. Practitioners must be prepared to address the specific technical nuances and procedural expectations of the 3 distinct examiners while operating within the 2 distinct art units. This requires a coordinated effort to ensure that the Computing & Software applications are prosecuted effectively across the different administrative groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YEW, CHIE W | 1 | 75.9% | +24.5% |
| VICARY, KEITH E | 1 | 57.7% | +40.3% |
| ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | 1 | 61.1% | +21.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516474 | FAST TARGET PROPAGATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING AND ELECTRICAL NETWORKS | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033296 | TIME MULTIPLEXING AND WEIGHT DUPLICATION IN EFFICIENT IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | YEW, CHIE W | 30d |
| 18777360 | INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE FOR IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | VICARY, KEITH E | 71d |
| 18516474 | FAST TARGET PROPAGATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING AND ELECTRICAL NETWORKS | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2183 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033296 | TIME MULTIPLEXING AND WEIGHT DUPLICATION IN EFFICIENT IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | YEW, CHIE W | 2139 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | AI Ready | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18777360 | INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE FOR IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | VICARY, KEITH E | 2183 | §112 | Final Rejection | 71d | AI Ready | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18516474 | FAST TARGET PROPAGATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING AND ELECTRICAL NETWORKS | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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