Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smartsens Technology(Hk) Co. Limited has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MOREHEAD III, JOHN H. The prosecution is being conducted within 1 distinct art unit, which provides a centralized technical review for the company's current filing. MOREHEAD III, JOHN H is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action.
This matches the total number of pending actions for the company, indicating that all current prosecution activity is concentrated with a single examiner. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific preferences of MOREHEAD III, JOHN H and the guidelines of the 1 art unit involved to effectively manage this pending action. The concentration of 1 pending action under 1 examiner ensures that the applicant only needs to navigate the preferences and guidelines of a single point of review.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | 1 | 85.8% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19172693 | IMAGE SENSOR, ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE, AND CONTROL METHOD | MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19172693 | IMAGE SENSOR, ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE, AND CONTROL METHOD | MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172693 | IMAGE SENSOR, ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE, AND CONTROL METHOD | MOREHEAD III, JOHN H | 2639 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
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