Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Otos Wing Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both examiners are situated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's networking and security innovations are being reviewed by a single specialized department. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit may provide a more consistent technical evaluation for the pending cases.
LAM, HUNG H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The 2 pending actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners. This means that while the company must manage 2 different examiner relationships, both examiners are subject to the same art unit policies. This balance of examiner variety and art unit focus is a central feature of their current prosecution. Practitioners should be prepared for 2 different examination styles within this 1 technical group. This structure allows for departmental consistency across both actions.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAM, HUNG H | 1 | 84.0% | +12.6% |
| YANG, NIEN | 1 | 73.3% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216537 | CAMERA SYSTEM | LAM, HUNG 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797252 | WELDING INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS | YANG, NIEN | 16d overdue |
| 19216537 | CAMERA SYSTEM | LAM, HUNG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2484 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19216537 | CAMERA SYSTEM | LAM, HUNG H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18797252 | WELDING INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS | YANG, NIEN | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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