Technology area: Computing & Software
13 pending office actions • 13 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Preferred Networks Inc. has 12 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters are assigned to 12 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, indicating that every pending matter follows a separate examiner and art-unit path. This dispersion limits the value of a single prosecution template and makes application-level docket review essential. It also suggests that similar software concepts may encounter different examination contexts.
MITCHELL, NATHAN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner or art unit has a recorded concentration, so counsel should treat each office action as an independent negotiation while using portfolio review to organize common technology themes. Consistent disclosure and claim charts can support coordination, but arguments and amendments should be tied to the individual examiner's cited art and the specific Computing & Software claims under review.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (46%) |
| §103 only | 3 (23%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (15%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 1 | 72.9% | +10.0% |
| WASSUM, LUKE S | 1 | 67.0% | +16.5% |
| TSWEI, YU-JANG | 1 | 83.7% | +15.9% |
| TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | 1 | 30.8% | +66.7% |
| GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | 1 | 77.9% | +17.9% |
| SHELTON, SETH CAPRIANO-UMA | 1 | — | — |
| HEADLY, MELISSA A | 1 | 75.1% | +41.0% |
| ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | 1 | 61.2% | +21.7% |
| TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 1 | 69.3% | +20.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952232 | DATA GENERATION METHOD, DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17901216 | LEARNING DEVICE UNIT | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | 9d |
| 17446347 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 9d |
| 19092283 | SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | — |
| 19060972 | TACTILE INFORMATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, TACTILE INFORMATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | WASSUM, LUKE S | — |
| 18897595 | PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROCESSOR | TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | — |
| 18533914 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | — |
| 18533481 | INFERRING DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | SHELTON, SETH CAPRIANO-UMA | — |
| 18076636 | INFERRING DEVICE, INFERRING METHOD, STRUCTURAL FORMULA, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17901216 | LEARNING DEVICE UNIT | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | 9d |
| 19092283 | SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | — |
| 19060972 | TACTILE INFORMATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, TACTILE INFORMATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | WASSUM, LUKE S | — |
| 18952232 | DATA GENERATION METHOD, DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
| 18897595 | PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROCESSOR | TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | — |
| 18533914 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | — |
| 18505229 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | HEADLY, MELISSA A | — |
| 17733949 | REMOTE CONTROLLED DEVICE, REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM AND REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2141 | 1 |
| 2126 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| 2129 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092283 | SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19060972 | TACTILE INFORMATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, TACTILE INFORMATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | WASSUM, LUKE S | 3992 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18952232 | DATA GENERATION METHOD, DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18897595 | PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROCESSOR | TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | 2196 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18533914 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18533481 | INFERRING DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | SHELTON, SETH CAPRIANO-UMA | 2141 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18505229 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | HEADLY, MELISSA A | 2126 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18076636 | INFERRING DEVICE, INFERRING METHOD, STRUCTURAL FORMULA, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | 1687 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17901216 | LEARNING DEVICE UNIT | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | 2129 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17733949 | REMOTE CONTROLLED DEVICE, REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM AND REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
| 17698950 | INFERRING DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, INFERRING METHOD, AND TRAINING METHOD | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | 1686 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
| 17446347 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 2187 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 30, 2021 |
| 17221060 | HYPERPARAMETER TUNING METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | JABLON, ASHER H. | 2127 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialPreferred Networks Inc. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 13 examiners.
Nathan A Mitchell has the most, with 1 of Preferred Networks Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
