Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vapor Products Group LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single active matter indicates a targeted approach to its intellectual property filings. The presence of 1 pending action suggests that the company is focusing its current domestic prosecution on a specific communication technology or device rather than a broad portfolio.
The prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This 1-to-1 ratio between the examiner and the art unit indicates a streamlined review process. For practitioners, this means that the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single point of contact at the USPTO, which simplifies communication. The use of 1 distinct art unit further indicates that the technology falls within a specific technical classification.
TRIEU, VAN THANH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner is responsible for the entire active workload, their specific examination patterns will be the most influential factor in the portfolio's development. Navigating the 1 busiest examiner pending action requires a deep understanding of this examiner's prior rulings within the specific art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRIEU, VAN THANH | 1 | 84.5% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17490855 | REMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION MONITORING AND REPORTING | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 51d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17490855 | REMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION MONITORING AND REPORTING | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 51d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17490855 | REMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION MONITORING AND REPORTING | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 2685 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialVapor Products Group LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Van Thanh Trieu has the most, with 1 of Vapor Products Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.