Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions, indicating a moderate and focused level of prosecution activity. This volume of 3 pending office actions suggests that the company is actively working to secure its intellectual property for several key display-related innovations.
The prosecution of these 3 actions is handled by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of perspectives on the company's filings. The fact that there are 2 distinct art units for 3 actions suggests that at least 2 of the applications are technically related enough to be housed in the same unit.
LE, BAO-LUAN Q is the busiest examiner for Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd., currently handling 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1 and a total of 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the 3 distinct examiners. This means that no single examiner has a disproportionate impact on the portfolio, and the company must navigate the specific requirements of 3 different individuals across 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD | 1 | 41.4% | +19.2% |
| MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 1 | 27.1% | +31.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834537 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONGESTION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD | KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD | 27d |
| 18608477 | PARKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM, PARKING GUIDANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834537 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONGESTION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD | KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD | 27d |
| 18608477 | PARKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM, PARKING GUIDANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834537 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONGESTION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD | KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18608477 | PARKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM, PARKING GUIDANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 3663 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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