Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Smartsafe Tech Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing a focused technical scope for the company's current filings. The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different person at the patent office.
NGUYEN, TUNG X is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 action is one of the 3 total pending actions currently in progress. The use of 3 distinct examiners for 3 actions shows a lack of examiner concentration, even though the work is focused within 2 art units in the semiconductors and optics field. For practitioners, this means that each of the 3 pending office actions requires a unique strategy tailored to the specific examiner involved. The distribution of 3 actions across 2 art units suggests that while the examiners are different, the technical subject matter is relatively concentrated. Successfully managing these 3 pending matters will require navigating the individual styles of the 3 distinct examiners within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TUNG X | 1 | 88.2% | +2.7% |
| NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 1 | 48.6% | +12.4% |
| WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757688 | BATTERY HEALTH STATE ASSESSMENT METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTER APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, TUNG X | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717377 | TIRE TREAD DETECTION DEVICE AND TIRE TREAD DETECTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | — |
| 18671197 | FOUR-WHEEL ALIGNMENT MEASURING DEVICE AND FOUR-WHEEL ALIGNMENT APPARATUS | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717377 | TIRE TREAD DETECTION DEVICE AND TIRE TREAD DETECTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18757688 | BATTERY HEALTH STATE ASSESSMENT METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTER APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, TUNG X | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18717377 | TIRE TREAD DETECTION DEVICE AND TIRE TREAD DETECTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 2853 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18671197 | FOUR-WHEEL ALIGNMENT MEASURING DEVICE AND FOUR-WHEEL ALIGNMENT APPARATUS | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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