Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tahoe Research Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. With 3 examiners for 3 actions, each of the company's current matters in this technology area is receiving an independent review from a different individual at the patent office.
MELTON, TODD M is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's transportation and mechanical systems work is being reviewed by more than one specialized department. This structure requires managing 3 different examiner personalities while adhering to the standards of 2 different art units. The parity between the 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners ensures that no single examiner has an outsized influence on the company's current portfolio.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELTON, TODD M | 1 | 84.3% | +17.8% |
| GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | 1 | 73.6% | +14.2% |
| TRAN, ANTHAN | 1 | 83.0% | +2.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779662 | STACKED MEMORY WITH INTERFACE PROVIDING OFFSET INTERCONNECTS | TRAN, ANTHAN | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006996 | INTELLIGENT VEHICLE NAVIGATOR | MELTON, TODD M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006996 | INTELLIGENT VEHICLE NAVIGATOR | MELTON, TODD M | — |
| 18901738 | SELECTIVELY AUGMENTING COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED BY A COMMUNICATION DEVICE | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3669 | 1 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19006996 | INTELLIGENT VEHICLE NAVIGATOR | MELTON, TODD M | 3669 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18901738 | SELECTIVELY AUGMENTING COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED BY A COMMUNICATION DEVICE | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18779662 | STACKED MEMORY WITH INTERFACE PROVIDING OFFSET INTERCONNECTS | TRAN, ANTHAN | 2825 | §102 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
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