Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Techinvest Company Limited manages 5 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a relatively focused prosecution environment despite the higher volume of actions. TSWEI, YU-JANG is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 4 pending office actions. This high level of concentration means that a single examiner's perspective will dictate the outcome for the vast majority of the company's pending applications.
The distribution of 5 pending office actions across only 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is concentrated within specific sub-sectors of the Communications field. For the practitioner, this provides an opportunity to identify patterns in how these specific units interpret prior art and apply legal standards. However, with TSWEI, YU-JANG managing 4 of the pending matters, the portfolio is highly sensitive to the specific habits and preferences of this one individual.
Strategic planning for Techinvest Company Limited should prioritize the relationship with the busiest examiner. Since 4 pending office actions are under their jurisdiction, any success in negotiating with this examiner will have a disproportionate impact on the overall health of the portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct examiners allows for some comparison of prosecution styles, but the heavy weighting toward one individual necessitates a specialized approach to their specific art unit and examination history.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSWEI, YU-JANG | 4 | 83.6% | +16.0% |
| YANG, YI | 1 | 72.2% | +18.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17689929 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR STADIUM SEATS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 142d overdue |
| 17689920 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR POSTERS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 72d overdue |
| 18087588 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 59d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17689926 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR MEDICAL OBJECTS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17689929 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR STADIUM SEATS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 142d overdue |
| 17689906 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR CITY LIGHT | YANG, YI | 89d overdue |
| 17689920 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR POSTERS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 72d overdue |
| 18087588 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 59d overdue |
| 17689926 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR MEDICAL OBJECTS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2614 | 4 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18087588 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 17689906 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR CITY LIGHT | YANG, YI | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
| 17689920 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR POSTERS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
| 17689929 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR STADIUM SEATS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 2614 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 142d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
| 17689926 | AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND MIXED-REALITY CONTENT SELECTION & DISPLAY FOR MEDICAL OBJECTS | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 2614 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
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