Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Touch Biometrix Limited is managing 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This configuration means that each pending application is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different administrative unit. The use of 2 distinct art units for the current matters suggests that the company's filings in the Communications area are technically diverse enough to be classified separately.
SHEN, YUZHEN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is divided. The involvement of the various art units requires the company to monitor different sets of art unit policies. Practitioners must prepare for 2 distinct examiners, SHEN, YUZHEN and another individual, as there is no overlap in the individuals currently examining the company's filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEN, YUZHEN | 1 | 70.9% | +12.4% |
| LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | 1 | 52.3% | +9.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18613530 | HIGH RESOLUTION TOUCH SENSOR APPARATUS AND METHOD | LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | 113d overdue |
| 19103189 | Sensors and Methods | SHEN, YUZHEN | 43d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103189 | Sensors and Methods | SHEN, YUZHEN | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2623 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103189 | Sensors and Methods | SHEN, YUZHEN | 2623 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18613530 | HIGH RESOLUTION TOUCH SENSOR APPARATUS AND METHOD | LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | 2622 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 113d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
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