Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 6 actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning there is no examiner overlap in the current pending set. The portfolio is active in 3 distinct art units, showing that the company's communications work is concentrated in a few technical areas.
BALAOING, ARIEL A is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 6 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must address 6 different individual perspectives. The involvement of 3 distinct art units for only 6 actions suggests that while the examiners are unique, the technical subject matter is reviewed by a small number of specialized groups. This requires a prosecution strategy that is tailored to 6 different examiners while maintaining consistency across 3 different art units.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALAOING, ARIEL A | 1 | 79.6% | +7.1% |
| GIESY, ADAM | 1 | 81.3% | +12.2% |
| JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.0% | +19.0% |
| LANEAU, RONALD | 1 | 88.2% | +9.8% |
| SONG, ZHENG B | 1 | 70.1% | +15.1% |
| MERCEDES, DISMERY E | 1 | 77.2% | +10.4% |
| HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA | 1 | 67.3% | +37.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269130 | WIRELESS LIGHTING EFFECT CONFIGURATION DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | GIESY, ADAM | — |
| 18982182 | GAMING CONTROLLER FOR MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING A GAMING CONTROLLER | LANEAU, RONALD | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269130 | WIRELESS LIGHTING EFFECT CONFIGURATION DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | GIESY, ADAM | — |
| 19124492 | Peripheral Input Device | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18974943 | LAMP FOR DISPLAYING MULTI-COLOR LIGHTING EFFECTS | SONG, ZHENG B | — |
| 18697022 | INPUT KEY ASSEMBLY AND INPUT DEVICE | MERCEDES, DISMERY E | — |
| 18253265 | FACE MASKS | HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2624 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2627 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19414023 | AN INPUT DEVICE | BALAOING, ARIEL A | 2624 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2025 |
| 19269130 | WIRELESS LIGHTING EFFECT CONFIGURATION DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | GIESY, ADAM | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19124492 | Peripheral Input Device | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 2626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 18982182 | GAMING CONTROLLER FOR MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING A GAMING CONTROLLER | LANEAU, RONALD | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18974943 | LAMP FOR DISPLAYING MULTI-COLOR LIGHTING EFFECTS | SONG, ZHENG B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18697022 | INPUT KEY ASSEMBLY AND INPUT DEVICE | MERCEDES, DISMERY E | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18253265 | FACE MASKS | HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
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