Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Perception Systems LLC focuses its patent activity in the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending matter is situated in a technical niche of the Communications field. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions and art units indicates a concentrated prosecution presence.
ZHANG, FAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. The presence of 1 distinct examiner indicates that the current prosecution landscape is concentrated. This profile suggests that the company is not currently managing office actions across different departments. Practitioners can expect interaction with ZHANG, FAN for the pending matter. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner affects the oversight required for this portfolio. This structure means the outcome of the current prosecution depends on the review of ZHANG, FAN within 1 art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, FAN | 1 | 55.3% | +16.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521263 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING INPUT DATA TO PALETTES USING NEURAL NETWORKS | ZHANG, FAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18521263 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING INPUT DATA TO PALETTES USING NEURAL NETWORKS | ZHANG, FAN | 2682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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