Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Leqi Innovation Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, so each examiner is responsible for exactly one action. The busiest examiner, HANCE, ROBERT J, consequently has 1 pending office action.
Both pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that while 2 distinct examiners are involved, they are working within the same technical group at the USPTO. This may lead to a more uniform application of Communications-related patent rules for the 2 pending office actions than if they were in different art units. For the practitioner, managing 2 distinct examiners within a single art unit requires a strategy that accounts for individual differences while leveraging the shared technical standards of the unit. The 2 pending office actions represent the company's current active engagement in the Communications field, and the lack of examiner overlap means each case requires its own focused negotiation.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANCE, ROBERT J | 1 | 66.5% | +21.5% |
| VIEAUX, GARY C | 1 | 78.9% | +9.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033507 | FOLDABLE MOUNTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | HANCE, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033507 | FOLDABLE MOUNTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | HANCE, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033507 | FOLDABLE MOUNTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | HANCE, ROBERT J | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18900978 | CONTROL METHOD, LENS CONTROL DEVICE, LENS DRIVER, AND FOLLOW FOCUS CONTROL SYSTEM | VIEAUX, GARY C | 2638 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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