Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suzhou Sushi Testing Group Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio currently involves 1 distinct examiner, indicating a narrow scope of active prosecution. The 1 distinct art unit involved represents the company's current jurisdictional footprint at the patent office.
LI, YONGHONG is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action constitutes the entire active workload for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company can concentrate its efforts on the specific preferences and review style of this single official. LI, YONGHONG is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's filings.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of LI, YONGHONG within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. The 1 pending office action is the only matter requiring immediate attention. This concentration within 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit allows for a highly targeted legal strategy to advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, YONGHONG | 1 | 76.5% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703441 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LI, YONGHONG | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703441 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LI, YONGHONG | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18703441 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
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