Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Zolon Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to examiner TOPGYAL, GELEK W within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts. TOPGYAL, GELEK W is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, making them the sole point of contact for the company's pending communications patents. The success of the company's current intellectual property strategy depends entirely on the resolution of this 1 pending office action.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOPGYAL, GELEK W | 1 | 59.6% | +19.3% |
| BENGZON, GREG C | 1 | 57.9% | +7.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851153 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TOPGYAL, GELEK W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2638 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851153 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TOPGYAL, GELEK W | 2638 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18849127 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FILE, TERMINAL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BENGZON, GREG C | 2444 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial