Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Towers Watson Software Limited maintains a patent portfolio in the Computing & Software technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting the software-centric nature of the company's intellectual property. The prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner. This setup shows a singular focus for the company's current patent applications within the patent office's computing division.
CHEN, ALAN S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio has 1 pending office action in total, CHEN, ALAN S is responsible for all of the company's pending matters. This shows a direct and singular relationship between the company's current software patent applications and the examining staff. Practitioners should note that all current prosecution activity is concentrated with this one examiner in one art unit.
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 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, ALAN S | 1 | 90.9% | +6.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18530732 | METHODS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM THROUGH LAYERED GRADIENT BOOSTING | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2125 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18530732 | METHODS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM THROUGH LAYERED GRADIENT BOOSTING | CHEN, ALAN S | 2125 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTowers Watson Software Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alan S Chen has the most, with 1 of Towers Watson Software Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
