Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wayfair LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning that each of the company's active applications is being handled by a different person. The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's communication-related innovations are being examined within two different technical frameworks at the patent office.
HE, YINGCHUN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With a total of 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed among 3 distinct examiners, so no single examiner has a larger share of the cases than the others. This decentralized arrangement requires practitioners to manage 3 separate examiner relationships simultaneously. While the 2 distinct art units may share some commonalities, the 3 distinct examiners will each apply their own interpretation of the rules. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each examiner to move the 3 pending office actions toward resolution.
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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HE, YINGCHUN | 1 | 82.1% | +14.9% |
| PATEL, SHREYANS A | 1 | 88.7% | +8.5% |
| LEE, JENNIFER V | 1 | 25.1% | +39.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091004 | TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL VISUALIZATION OF A PRODUCT IN A PHYSICAL SCENE | HE, YINGCHUN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18223847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING PRODUCTS IN A USER'S SPACE | LEE, JENNIFER V | 112d overdue |
| 18804897 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR INTENT-BASED ROUTING OF CALLER COMMUNICATIONS | PATEL, SHREYANS 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18223847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING PRODUCTS IN A USER'S SPACE | LEE, JENNIFER V | 112d overdue |
| 19091004 | TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL VISUALIZATION OF A PRODUCT IN A PHYSICAL SCENE | HE, YINGCHUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091004 | TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL VISUALIZATION OF A PRODUCT IN A PHYSICAL SCENE | HE, YINGCHUN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18804897 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR INTENT-BASED ROUTING OF CALLER COMMUNICATIONS | PATEL, SHREYANS A | 2659 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18223847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING PRODUCTS IN A USER'S SPACE | LEE, JENNIFER V | 3688 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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