Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siliconarts Technology US Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The portfolio features 2 pending office actions. These 2 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the current workload is shared between different reviewers. This arrangement allows for independent evaluation of each of the 2 pending office actions currently active in the portfolio.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units. CHOW, JEFFREY J is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions suggests a technical scope that reaches across different divisions within the Communications field. Having 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions ensures that each application is being evaluated in a unique technical and procedural context. This distribution across 2 distinct art units requires the company to address the specific examination styles and prior art interpretations of 2 different technical units. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending office action means that the remaining pending matter is handled by the other distinct examiner.
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 (50%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOW, JEFFREY J | 1 | 77.2% | +15.7% |
| PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034842 | MULTI-CHIP BASED RAY TRACING DEVICE AND METHOD USING FRAME PARTITIONING | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718183 | RAY TRACING QUALITY CONTROL METHOD ACCORDING TO CAMERA MOVEMENT, RAY TRACING QUALITY CONTROL APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE SAME | CHOW, JEFFREY J | 89d overdue |
| 18034842 | MULTI-CHIP BASED RAY TRACING DEVICE AND METHOD USING FRAME PARTITIONING | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2618 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718183 | RAY TRACING QUALITY CONTROL METHOD ACCORDING TO CAMERA MOVEMENT, RAY TRACING QUALITY CONTROL APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE SAME | CHOW, JEFFREY J | 2618 | §112 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18034842 | MULTI-CHIP BASED RAY TRACING DEVICE AND METHOD USING FRAME PARTITIONING | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
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