Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Whirlwind Vr Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. Each of these 2 actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 2 distinct examiners for the portfolio. These matters are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical scope for the company's current patent filings. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit for both actions suggests that the company's technology falls under a single specialized group at the USPTO. This concentration allows for a consistent administrative environment across the pending applications.
Thang Gia Huynh is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 total actions, the workload is distributed with no examiner overlap. This structure requires the company to engage with 2 different examiners within the same art unit for its 2 pending office actions. Practitioners should prepare for the individual perspectives of the 2 distinct examiners while navigating the standards of the single art unit. The 2 pending office actions represent the entirety of the company's current activity in the Networking & Security area, requiring specific attention to each individual examiner's feedback.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUYNH, THANG GIA | 1 | 81.4% | +37.2% |
| SHANG, ANNAN Q | 1 | 70.8% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19180177 | A System and Method for Prompting End-Device Effects Using a Generative AI Model | HUYNH, THANG GIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011657 | System and Method for Video-Captured Initialization of Peripheral Devices | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 16d overdue |
| 19180177 | A System and Method for Prompting End-Device Effects Using a Generative AI Model | HUYNH, THANG GIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19180177 | A System and Method for Prompting End-Device Effects Using a Generative AI Model | HUYNH, THANG GIA | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19011657 | System and Method for Video-Captured Initialization of Peripheral Devices | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 2424 | §102DP | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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