Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Vusiongroup has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The current workload is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a highly specific technical focus for the company's current patent filings. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit allows the company to focus its legal arguments on the specific standards of that division.
YU, ARIEL J is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is managing 1 pending office action, representing the full scope of the company's pending prosecution. Because the company only has 1 pending office action, its entire strategy is centered on the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner. This provides a clear and direct path for prosecution, as there are no other examiners or art units to coordinate with. However, it also means that the company's immediate intellectual property success is tied to the outcome of this single interaction. Practitioners should closely monitor the preferences of this examiner to ensure the 1 pending office action is resolved successfully.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YU, ARIEL J | 1 | 40.3% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635575 | Camera-Implemented Article Layout Control Method For Shelves Equipped With Electronic Shelf Labels | YU, ARIEL J | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635575 | Camera-Implemented Article Layout Control Method For Shelves Equipped With Electronic Shelf Labels | YU, ARIEL J | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635575 | Camera-Implemented Article Layout Control Method For Shelves Equipped With Electronic Shelf Labels | YU, ARIEL J | 3627 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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