Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Soundful Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is situated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current legal activity is confined to a specific technical niche. This lack of distribution across multiple units suggests a focused prosecution phase.
The workload involves 1 distinct examiner, which means there is no current variation in examiner perspectives for the company. QIN, JIANCHUN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. For a patent practitioner, the fact that 1 distinct examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action implies a centralized review process. The portfolio's current status is defined by the 1 distinct art unit and the 1 distinct examiner assigned to it. This profile indicates that the company's immediate patent goals are being evaluated in a highly concentrated examination environment.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIN, JIANCHUN | 1 | 69.2% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18082988 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF AUDIO TRACKS | QIN, JIANCHUN | 72d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18082988 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF AUDIO TRACKS | QIN, JIANCHUN | 72d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18082988 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF AUDIO TRACKS | QIN, JIANCHUN | 2837 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
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