Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Western Union Company has 1 pending office action currently active. This 1 matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, SHIH, HAOSHIAN, who is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. According to the data, 0 distinct art units are associated with the company's pending prosecution.
This indicates a consolidated prosecution environment where 1 examiner manages the company's entire current workload at the patent office. This structure simplifies the coordination of responses and legal strategy, as there are no competing examiner perspectives to navigate. The company's current legal standing is thus characterized by a direct engagement with 1 specific point of contact.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIH, HAOSHIAN | 1 | 69.6% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18951020 | PERSONALIZED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE DISPLAYS | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18951020 | PERSONALIZED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE DISPLAYS | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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