Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Supercell Oy has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across the distinct art units. This structure shows that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized division. Thomas, Eric M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action.
With the distinct examiners each responsible for a pending office action, the workload is distributed. The company faces separate examination tracks within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sectors. Practitioners must navigate the requirements of 2 distinct art units to advance the pending office actions currently on file. This arrangement requires a tailored approach for each of the examiners, as they operate within different administrative units of the patent office. The 1 pending office action under Thomas, Eric M is a key element of this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 1 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645704 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR FACILITATING USER INTERACTIONS WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | THOMAS, ERIC M | 24d overdue |
| 18633856 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING GRAPHICAL LAYOUT | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645704 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR FACILITATING USER INTERACTIONS WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | THOMAS, ERIC M | 24d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645704 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR FACILITATING USER INTERACTIONS WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | THOMAS, ERIC M | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18633856 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING GRAPHICAL LAYOUT | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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