Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universita Della Svizzera Italiana has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Prosecution is currently limited to this point of contact, indicating a highly specific focus for the university's current patent efforts.
CHUNG, MONG-SHUNE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the busiest examiner pending office action. This application is the university's only active matter in the software sector currently pending at the USPTO. The concentration of the portfolio under a single examiner allows for a direct and consistent dialogue during the prosecution of the technology.
Practitioners should note that the alignment of the pending matter within the specified technology area ensures that the examination is conducted by a specialist in computing and software. The focus on a single examiner and art unit provides a streamlined prosecution environment. This structure minimizes the complexity often associated with managing multiple examiner relationships across different technical units at the USPTO.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUNG, MONG-SHUNE | 1 | 76.3% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18626653 | LEARNING CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL POLICIES FOR MANUFACTURING | CHUNG, MONG-SHUNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18626653 | LEARNING CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL POLICIES FOR MANUFACTURING | CHUNG, MONG-SHUNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18626653 | LEARNING CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL POLICIES FOR MANUFACTURING | CHUNG, MONG-SHUNE | 2118 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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