Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNITX, INC. has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's communications-related filings cover several different technical classifications and are subject to varying examination standards. This distribution reflects a broad technical scope within the company's current communications innovations.
The prosecution is managed by 3 distinct examiners, with each of the 3 pending office actions assigned to a different individual. ZHAO, LEI is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the company's current workload is evenly split among 3 examiners and 3 art units, with no 1 person or department dominating the prosecution landscape. For practitioners, this requires a management strategy that can handle 3 separate dialogues with different examiners across 3 different technical areas. The lack of concentration in 1 art unit or under 1 examiner means that the company must be prepared for a diverse range of feedback and requirements within the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, LEI | 1 | 73.3% | +17.7% |
| YANG, JIANXUN | 1 | 74.1% | +19.3% |
| SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 1 | 71.5% | +35.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384770 | Dimensional Measurement Method Based on Deep Learning | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 18d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384770 | Dimensional Measurement Method Based on Deep Learning | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 18d overdue |
| 18951429 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DATA SYNTHESIS | ZHAO, LEI | — |
| 18934054 | USING IMAGE ALIGNMENT FOR FLY CAPTURE WITH PHOTOMETRIC STEREO | YANG, JIANXUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18951429 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DATA SYNTHESIS | ZHAO, LEI | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18934054 | USING IMAGE ALIGNMENT FOR FLY CAPTURE WITH PHOTOMETRIC STEREO | YANG, JIANXUN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18384770 | Dimensional Measurement Method Based on Deep Learning | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 2669 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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