Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanechips Technology Co., Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Computing & Software technology area, currently featuring 10 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 10 distinct examiners, resulting in a one-to-one relationship where each examiner is responsible for a single matter. The prosecution is highly diversified across 8 distinct art units, indicating a wide technical breadth for the company's software-related filings.
HUBER, MELANIE GRACE is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action accounts for a portion of the 10 total pending office actions. Since the workload is evenly split among the 10 distinct examiners, the portfolio's progress is subject to a broad variety of individual examination perspectives.
Practitioners should be prepared for a complex prosecution environment, as the 10 pending office actions are spread across 8 distinct art units. This high ratio of art units to actions suggests that almost every case is being evaluated under a different technical classification. With 10 distinct examiners involved, there is no opportunity to leverage examiner-specific insights across multiple applications, requiring a unique approach for each of the 10 pending office actions.
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 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUBER, MELANIE GRACE | 1 | 75.7% | +15.7% |
| LIN, ERICA S Y | 1 | 85.9% | +2.7% |
| PERRY, VICTOR NICHOLAS | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| EGOAVIL, GUILLERMO J | 1 | 89.8% | +8.5% |
| SHIU, HO T | 1 | 72.0% | -3.5% |
| NGUYEN, CATHERINE MARIE | 1 | 83.3% | +27.5% |
| VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 1 | 86.7% | -1.8% |
| YAARY, MICHAEL D | 1 | 87.2% | +8.1% |
| GAN, CHUEN-MEEI | 1 | 81.7% | +41.4% |
| LE, PHAT NGOC | 1 | 73.3% | +28.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038420 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 8d |
| 18875523 | Temperature Sensor, Temperature Sensor Packaging Method, and Temperature Measurement Method | LIN, ERICA S Y | — |
| 18873881 | DECODING PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | PERRY, VICTOR NICHOLAS | — |
| 18725768 | PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT BOARD | EGOAVIL, GUILLERMO J | — |
| 18564069 | RESOURCE QUEUE MANAGEMENT INTERFACE VERIFICATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CATHERINE MARIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19143470 | VEHICLE FAULT PROCESSING METHOD AND VEHICLE CHIP | HUBER, MELANIE GRACE | — |
| 18018601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PSEUDO-RANDOM SEQUENCE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | YAARY, MICHAEL D | — |
| 18012545 | COVER UNIT DETERMINING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GAN, CHUEN-MEEI | — |
| 17784986 | FIR FILTER-BASED FILTERING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LE, PHAT NGOC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19143470 | VEHICLE FAULT PROCESSING METHOD AND VEHICLE CHIP | HUBER, MELANIE GRACE | — |
| 18564069 | RESOURCE QUEUE MANAGEMENT INTERFACE VERIFICATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CATHERINE MARIE | — |
| 18012545 | COVER UNIT DETERMINING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GAN, CHUEN-MEEI | — |
| 17784986 | FIR FILTER-BASED FILTERING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LE, PHAT NGOC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 1 |
| 2111 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2114 | 1 |
| 2468 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| 2182 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19143470 | VEHICLE FAULT PROCESSING METHOD AND VEHICLE CHIP | HUBER, MELANIE GRACE | 3668 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 18875523 | Temperature Sensor, Temperature Sensor Packaging Method, and Temperature Measurement Method | LIN, ERICA S Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18873881 | DECODING PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | PERRY, VICTOR NICHOLAS | 2111 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18725768 | PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT BOARD | EGOAVIL, GUILLERMO J | 2847 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2024 |
| 18568941 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SHIU, HO T | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18564069 | RESOURCE QUEUE MANAGEMENT INTERFACE VERIFICATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CATHERINE MARIE | 2114 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2023 |
| 18038420 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 2468 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18018601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PSEUDO-RANDOM SEQUENCE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | YAARY, MICHAEL D | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18012545 | COVER UNIT DETERMINING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GAN, CHUEN-MEEI | 2186 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 17784986 | FIR FILTER-BASED FILTERING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LE, PHAT NGOC | 2182 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2022 |
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