Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smarter Silicon (Shanghai) Technologies Co. Ltd. shows a prosecution profile within the Communications technology area, featuring 3 pending office actions. Although the company is dealing with multiple actions, all of them are situated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the subject matter is consistent enough to stay within a single unit, it is being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners. This arrangement requires the company to manage different sets of examiner expectations simultaneously.
RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, the company must navigate the individual preferences of these different officials even though the technical focus remains within 1 distinct art unit. The 3 pending office actions represent an active phase of responding to USPTO inquiries within the Communications technology area. This structure allows the company to gain insights from multiple examiners while maintaining a consistent technical focus.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 1 | 78.0% | +3.3% |
| ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | 1 | — | — |
| CHU, DAVID H | 1 | 78.3% | +3.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886342 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, LOAD COUNTING METHOD, AND FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD OF PROCESSOR | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000665 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD WITH DEVICE, AND A VEDIO PROCESSING METHOD WITH DEVICE | RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18886342 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, LOAD COUNTING METHOD, AND FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD OF PROCESSOR | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18812736 | IMAGE RENDERING METHOD AND DEVICE | CHU, DAVID H | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
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