Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER Incorporated is managing 7 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. The portfolio is highly diverse in its assignments, with 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units involved in the process. This wide distribution indicates that the company is pursuing a broad range of innovations across many different sub-sectors of computing and software.
The busiest examiner, MITROS, ANNA MAE, is currently handling 1 pending action. Because each of the pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner and art unit, the company faces a broad range of examination styles and technical focuses. This distribution requires a versatile prosecution strategy to address the unique requirements of multiple points of contact. With 7 distinct examiners involved, the company cannot rely on a single relationship or strategy, but must instead tailor its approach to the specific nuances of each individual examiner and art unit within the Computing & Software field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITROS, ANNA MAE | 1 | 36.1% | +48.3% |
| LI, LIANG Y | 1 | 61.8% | +69.3% |
| PREGLER, SHARON | 1 | 78.0% | +21.1% |
| GREIG, THOMAS W | 1 | 74.7% | +23.9% |
| HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 1 | 31.5% | +37.5% |
| YOUNG, MICAH PAUL | 1 | 55.1% | +30.0% |
| HAGAN, SEAN P | 1 | 39.4% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514866 | LOCALIZED VISUAL GRAPH FILTERS FOR COMPLEX GRAPH QUERIES | LI, LIANG Y | 59d overdue |
| 17684100 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 38d overdue |
| 18428805 | LINGUISTIC EXTRACTION OF TEMPORAL AND LOCATION INFORMATION FOR A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM | MITROS, ANNA MAE | — |
| 17408762 | PROCESS OF TRANSFERRING OF VCSEL EPI LAYER ONTO METAL HOST SUBSTRATE | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514866 | LOCALIZED VISUAL GRAPH FILTERS FOR COMPLEX GRAPH QUERIES | LI, LIANG Y | 59d overdue |
| 17684100 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 38d overdue |
| 17551289 | VISCOSIFIED FLUIDS FOR MEDICAMENT DELIVERY | YOUNG, MICAH PAUL | 27d |
| 18157311 | TUNABLE, RAPID UPTAKE, AMINOPOLYMER AEROGEL SORBENT FOR DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF CO2 | PREGLER, SHARON | 34d |
| 18428805 | LINGUISTIC EXTRACTION OF TEMPORAL AND LOCATION INFORMATION FOR A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM | MITROS, ANNA MAE | — |
| 17819152 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAMENT DELIVERY | GREIG, THOMAS W | — |
| 17408762 | PROCESS OF TRANSFERRING OF VCSEL EPI LAYER ONTO METAL HOST SUBSTRATE | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3689 | 1 |
| 2143 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18428805 | LINGUISTIC EXTRACTION OF TEMPORAL AND LOCATION INFORMATION FOR A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM | MITROS, ANNA MAE | 3689 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18514866 | LOCALIZED VISUAL GRAPH FILTERS FOR COMPLEX GRAPH QUERIES | LI, LIANG Y | 2143 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18157311 | TUNABLE, RAPID UPTAKE, AMINOPOLYMER AEROGEL SORBENT FOR DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF CO2 | PREGLER, SHARON | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17819152 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAMENT DELIVERY | GREIG, THOMAS W | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17684100 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 2188 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
| 17551289 | VISCOSIFIED FLUIDS FOR MEDICAMENT DELIVERY | YOUNG, MICAH PAUL | 1618 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
| 17408762 | PROCESS OF TRANSFERRING OF VCSEL EPI LAYER ONTO METAL HOST SUBSTRATE | HAGAN, SEAN P | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2021 |
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