Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
PopSockets LLC is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical review for the company's active applications. This variety suggests that the company is pursuing multiple innovations that span different sub-sectors across the 3 distinct art units.
WU, JERRY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This examiner handles a portion of the company's 4 pending office actions, while other matters are assigned to the other distinct examiners involved in the prosecution process. Because WU, JERRY manages 2 busiest examiner pending actions, his specific examination patterns will have a direct impact on the portfolio. The company must balance its prosecution strategy to address the requirements of 3 distinct examiners to successfully resolve the 4 pending office 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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, JERRY | 2 | 68.6% | +20.3% |
| WEINHOLD, INGRID M | 1 | 47.0% | +42.6% |
| WENDELL, ANDREW | 1 | 84.2% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17500789 | MAGNETIC GRIP ACCESSORY | WENDELL, ANDREW | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18638566 | EXPANDABLE DEVICE FOR A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | WEINHOLD, INGRID M | 73d overdue |
| 18614534 | DOCKING ACCESSORY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES | WU, JERRY | — |
| 18541470 | MAGNETIC DOCKING PLATFORM AND DETACHABLE DOCKING ACCESSORIES | WU, JERRY | — |
| 17500789 | MAGNETIC GRIP ACCESSORY | WENDELL, ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 2 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 2648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18638566 | EXPANDABLE DEVICE FOR A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | WEINHOLD, INGRID M | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18614534 | DOCKING ACCESSORY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES | WU, JERRY | 2841 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18541470 | MAGNETIC DOCKING PLATFORM AND DETACHABLE DOCKING ACCESSORIES | WU, JERRY | 2841 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 17500789 | MAGNETIC GRIP ACCESSORY | WENDELL, ANDREW | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2021 |
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