Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
West Texas Technology Partners LLC has 8 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 8 actions are assigned to 8 distinct examiners. This means there is no overlap in the individuals reviewing the company's current applications. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units.
DANG, PHILIP is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 8 total pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that each examiner manages exactly 1 case. The 4 distinct art units involved indicate that while the company's focus is on networking and security, its applications are being evaluated across 4 different technical classifications. Practitioners must manage 8 different examiners across these 4 art units, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific requirements of each technical group.
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 | 2 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, PHILIP | 1 | 77.6% | +29.8% |
| WANG, JIN CHENG | 1 | 59.5% | +10.4% |
| GIESY, ADAM | 1 | 81.3% | +12.2% |
| LI, GRACE Q | 1 | 77.8% | +13.6% |
| BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 1 | 67.9% | +35.0% |
| LAFONTANT, GARY | 1 | 73.5% | +1.5% |
| MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 1 | 85.5% | +13.8% |
| BONSHOCK, DENNIS G | 1 | 45.7% | +0.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748808 | Method and Apparatus for Switching Between Sensors | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 43d overdue |
| 18987927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EGO-CENTRIC 3D HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE | GIESY, ADAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19214545 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS TO A SINGLE HARDWARE DATA STREAM | DANG, PHILIP | — |
| 19012718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING MOTION-BASED DATA SPACE MANIPULATION | WANG, JIN CHENG | — |
| 18915834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPT-IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS | LAFONTANT, GARY | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748808 | Method and Apparatus for Switching Between Sensors | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 43d overdue |
| 19214545 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS TO A SINGLE HARDWARE DATA STREAM | DANG, PHILIP | — |
| 19012718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING MOTION-BASED DATA SPACE MANIPULATION | WANG, JIN CHENG | — |
| 18987927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EGO-CENTRIC 3D HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE | GIESY, ADAM | — |
| 18979085 | METHOD FOR REPLACING 3D OBJECTS IN 2D ENVIRONMENT | LI, GRACE Q | — |
| 18950864 | CONTENT ASSOCIATION AND HISTORY TRACKING IN VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITIES | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| 2441 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19214545 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS TO A SINGLE HARDWARE DATA STREAM | DANG, PHILIP | 2488 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19012718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING MOTION-BASED DATA SPACE MANIPULATION | WANG, JIN CHENG | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18987927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EGO-CENTRIC 3D HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE | GIESY, ADAM | 2622 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18979085 | METHOD FOR REPLACING 3D OBJECTS IN 2D ENVIRONMENT | LI, GRACE Q | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18950864 | CONTENT ASSOCIATION AND HISTORY TRACKING IN VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITIES | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18915834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPT-IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS | LAFONTANT, GARY | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18748808 | Method and Apparatus for Switching Between Sensors | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2441 | §112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18540246 | Gesture Recognition Systems and Devices for Low and No Light Conditions | BONSHOCK, DENNIS G | 3992 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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