Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stratus Technologies Ireland Ltd. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. This workload is notably concentrated, as both actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, XU, MICHAEL. Furthermore, these matters are handled within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a high degree of technical similarity between the pending applications. For the company, this means that the entire active prosecution phase is subject to the oversight of a single administrative group and one individual's review.
XU, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 2 pending office actions. This concentration simplifies the administrative burden of tracking multiple examiners but also means that the company's success in the Computing & Software sector is highly dependent on this one examiner's perspective. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback provided by XU, MICHAEL across both matters to identify consistent themes or objections. Because there are 2 pending office actions under 1 distinct examiner, any progress made in one case may provide valuable insights for the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, MICHAEL | 2 | 75.8% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18399497 | SOFTWARE BASED VALIDATION OF MEMORY FOR FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS | XU, MICHAEL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18399497 | SOFTWARE BASED VALIDATION OF MEMORY FOR FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS | XU, MICHAEL | — |
| 18106550 | HIGH RELIABILITY FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE | XU, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2113 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18399497 | SOFTWARE BASED VALIDATION OF MEMORY FOR FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS | XU, MICHAEL | 2113 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18106550 | HIGH RELIABILITY FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE | XU, MICHAEL | 2113 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
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