Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stc Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are both housed in 1 distinct art unit, which points to a concentrated technical focus for these filings. However, the matters are being handled by 2 distinct examiners.
TRAN, THANG DUC is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the total pending actions. Practitioners should expect to manage separate examiner relationships even though the work is confined to the 1 distinct art unit.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, THANG DUC | 1 | 76.2% | +23.2% |
| EUSTAQUIO, CAL J | 1 | 63.7% | +35.5% |
| TRIEU, VAN THANH | 1 | 84.5% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972169 | Systems and Methods for Roadway Management Including Feedback | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19309873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACING A MASS TRANSIT VEHICLE | TRAN, THANG DUC | — |
| 19201466 | SIGNAL LIGHT PRIORITY SYSTEM UTILIZING VIDEO PROCESSING | EUSTAQUIO, CAL J | — |
| 18972169 | Systems and Methods for Roadway Management Including Feedback | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19309873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACING A MASS TRANSIT VEHICLE | TRAN, THANG DUC | 2686 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19201466 | SIGNAL LIGHT PRIORITY SYSTEM UTILIZING VIDEO PROCESSING | EUSTAQUIO, CAL J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 18972169 | Systems and Methods for Roadway Management Including Feedback | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 2685 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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