Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are being handled by 4 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for exactly one matter. These filings are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing some geographic concentration within the patent office's organizational structure. The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that the Communications technology filings are somewhat focused but still span multiple specialized groups.
CONNER, SEAN M is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, CONNER, SEAN M shares the workload equally with the other examiners. This lack of concentration suggests that no single examiner's habits will dominate the prosecution of these 4 pending office actions. With 4 distinct examiners to interact with, the company must manage four separate professional relationships to resolve the 4 pending office actions. The distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the technical subject matter is diverse enough to trigger different internal classifications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONNER, SEAN M | 1 | 78.6% | +26.7% |
| TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 1 | 81.4% | +11.7% |
| BEE, ANDREW W. | 1 | 73.2% | +31.8% |
| MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 1 | 46.2% | +35.2% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412887 | MEDICAL IMAGE DENOISING BASED ON LAYER SEPARATION | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 37d overdue |
| 18374473 | SEGMENTATION OF A REGION OF INTEREST IN A MEDICAL IMAGE | MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 34d |
| 18400140 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PARTIAL BODY MODEL BASED ON DETECTED BODY PART IN AN IMAGE | BEE, ANDREW W. | 54d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412887 | MEDICAL IMAGE DENOISING BASED ON LAYER SEPARATION | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 37d overdue |
| 18438426 | MOTION ESTIMATION BASED ON MULTIPLE PAIRS OF IMAGES | CONNER, SEAN M | 29d |
| 18374473 | SEGMENTATION OF A REGION OF INTEREST IN A MEDICAL IMAGE | MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 34d |
| 18400140 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PARTIAL BODY MODEL BASED ON DETECTED BODY PART IN AN IMAGE | BEE, ANDREW W. | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 2 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18438426 | MOTION ESTIMATION BASED ON MULTIPLE PAIRS OF IMAGES | CONNER, SEAN M | 2663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Feb 10, 2024 |
| 18412887 | MEDICAL IMAGE DENOISING BASED ON LAYER SEPARATION | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 2656 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18400140 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PARTIAL BODY MODEL BASED ON DETECTED BODY PART IN AN IMAGE | BEE, ANDREW W. | 2677 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18374473 | SEGMENTATION OF A REGION OF INTEREST IN A MEDICAL IMAGE | MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 2663 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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