Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Skyx Ip Holdings I LLC is currently managing 7 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 7 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, which indicates that the company interacts with a small group of patent officials. This distribution means that the company prosecution experience is concentrated under a limited number of individual perspectives.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is JOHNSON, SONJI N, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. While this is the highest individual workload, it represents a portion of the 7 pending office actions total. The reliance on 5 distinct examiners suggests that the company must maintain a focused prosecution strategy to address the specific requirements of these patent officials.
The involvement of 4 distinct art units means that the technical review is conducted across different specialized groups at the patent office. With 7 pending office actions and 4 distinct art units, the company must navigate various procedural preferences and technical standards. The company must tailor its responses to the specific requirements of the 4 distinct art units involved in the prosecution of these cases.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 3 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, SONJI N | 2 | 74.7% | +21.0% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 2 | 71.6% | +7.7% |
| HYEON, HAE M | 1 | 85.7% | +10.2% |
| KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 1 | 57.0% | +3.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19460611 | NFC-BASED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICES | HYEON, HAE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18965764 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AN ORAL NICOTINE DISPENSING SYSTEM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19460611 | NFC-BASED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICES | HYEON, HAE M | — |
| 19219067 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AGE-GATING AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICES WITH BLOCKCHAIN DATABASE | JOHNSON, SONJI N | — |
| 18965146 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION OF AN OBJECT USING NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) | JOHNSON, SONJI N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 2 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19460611 | NFC-BASED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICES | HYEON, HAE M | 2831 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2026 |
| 19219067 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AGE-GATING AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICES WITH BLOCKCHAIN DATABASE | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 2876 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18965146 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION OF AN OBJECT USING NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 2876 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18965428 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AN ORAL NICOTINE DISPENSING SYSTEM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18965764 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AN ORAL NICOTINE DISPENSING SYSTEM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | — | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18912221 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) READING | KUNTZ, CURTIS A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
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