Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Phoenixdarts Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio, which falls under Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent applications. The 1 pending office action represents the only active matter requiring a response from the applicant at this time.
VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This matches the total 1 pending office action for the company. All active prosecution for the company is therefore centralized under the review of VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit to move the application forward. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the success of the current prosecution cycle depends on addressing the specific concerns raised by this individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 64.2% | +17.3% |
| NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 1 | 85.3% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450643 | Method, Computer Program, And Device For Generating Training Dataset To Identify Hit Location Of Dart Pin | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573680 | Method For Providing Dart Game And Dart Game Server | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573680 | Method For Providing Dart Game And Dart Game Server | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18450643 | Method, Computer Program, And Device For Generating Training Dataset To Identify Hit Location Of Dart Pin | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
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