Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are located in 2 distinct art units, meaning each matter is being reviewed by a different technical group. The portfolio also involves 2 distinct examiners, with ALLYSON NEEL TRAIL identified as the busiest examiner holding 1 pending office action. This lack of overlap in the 2 art units and examiners indicates that each case is being handled as an independent matter.
With 2 pending actions and 2 examiners, there is no shared history or technical group to leverage across the current prosecution pipeline. Each case represents a unique set of technical and procedural challenges within the semiconductor field. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each of the 2 art units to advance these applications. The presence of different examiners ensures that the company's current patent efforts are subject to two different sets of individual reviews. Success in one matter does not necessarily predict the outcome of the other given the 2 distinct art units involved.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 1 | 88.4% | +7.1% |
| HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | 1 | 65.5% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19122262 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19117084 | GAME-TABLE COMPUTER DEVICE AND SYSTEM | HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19117084 | GAME-TABLE COMPUTER DEVICE AND SYSTEM | HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19122262 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 2876 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19117084 | GAME-TABLE COMPUTER DEVICE AND SYSTEM | HARPER, TRAMAR YONG | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
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