Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Via Technologies Inc. has 10 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 10 pending office actions are spread across 10 distinct examiners, which means the number of pending actions is equal to the number of individual examiners. This distribution indicates a lack of examiner concentration in the current portfolio. Practitioners must therefore prepare for 10 unique sets of feedback and procedural styles, as the 10 pending office actions do not share any examiners.
The prosecution is occurring across 8 distinct art units, showing a broad technical spread within the Communications field. ANTHONY M GARTRELLE is the busiest examiner on record for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution requires the company to manage 10 different examiner styles across 8 distinct art units simultaneously. The presence of 8 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers a wide range of sub-technologies, necessitating specialized expertise for the 10 pending office actions currently under review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (70%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARTRELLE, ANTHONY M | 1 | 91.9% | -8.8% |
| KOZIOL, STEPHEN R | 1 | 77.6% | +25.1% |
| WANG, YUEHAN | 1 | 82.5% | +13.6% |
| YENKE, BRIAN P | 1 | 63.3% | +13.3% |
| ASEGDEW, NATNAEL AREGA | 1 | — | — |
| SOHRABY, PARDIS | 1 | 80.0% | +5.9% |
| MUSE, ISMAIL A | 1 | 86.9% | +7.9% |
| GHEYAS, SYED I | 1 | 82.5% | +3.9% |
| HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | 1 | 62.5% | +37.5% |
| JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | 1 | 71.8% | +13.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18826485 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING A STITCHING SEAM FOR SURROUND VIEW STITCHING | WANG, YUEHAN | 19d |
| 18476281 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND ELECTRONIC PACKAGE | GHEYAS, SYED I | 49d |
| 18532002 | ADAPTIVE SENSING FOR IMPROVED SAFETY IN COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 54d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090450 | Vehicle Safety Assistance System and Method | GARTRELLE, ANTHONY M | — |
| 18673517 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ASEGDEW, NATNAEL AREGA | — |
| 18476279 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND ELECTRONIC PACKAGE | MUSE, ISMAIL A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18826485 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING A STITCHING SEAM FOR SURROUND VIEW STITCHING | WANG, YUEHAN | 19d |
| 18796284 | IMAGE SURVEILLANCE METHOD, IMAGE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE | YENKE, BRIAN P | 33d |
| 19019952 | METHOD AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED SYSTEM FOR HEAD POSTURE JUDGMENT | KOZIOL, STEPHEN R | — |
| 18302180 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING LANGUAGE MODELS | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | — |
| 17699467 | Object Detection Device and Object Detection Method | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2422 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19090450 | Vehicle Safety Assistance System and Method | GARTRELLE, ANTHONY M | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19019952 | METHOD AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED SYSTEM FOR HEAD POSTURE JUDGMENT | KOZIOL, STEPHEN R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18826485 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING A STITCHING SEAM FOR SURROUND VIEW STITCHING | WANG, YUEHAN | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18796284 | IMAGE SURVEILLANCE METHOD, IMAGE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE | YENKE, BRIAN P | 2422 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18673517 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ASEGDEW, NATNAEL AREGA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18532002 | ADAPTIVE SENSING FOR IMPROVED SAFETY IN COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18476279 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND ELECTRONIC PACKAGE | MUSE, ISMAIL A | 2812 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18476281 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND ELECTRONIC PACKAGE | GHEYAS, SYED I | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18302180 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING LANGUAGE MODELS | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | 2659 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 17699467 | Object Detection Device and Object Detection Method | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2022 |
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