Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wiliot Ltd. manages 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's prosecution is handled by a variety of personnel across multiple technical divisions, reflecting a diverse patent strategy.
Lester G Kincaid is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The presence of 5 distinct examiners for the pending actions indicates that no single examiner is managing more than 1 active matter for the company. This lack of concentration reduces the risk that a single difficult examiner could stall a large portion of the portfolio.
The 4 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's innovations touch on several different aspects of transportation and mechanical systems. For the legal team, this means coordinating across different technical groups, each with its own set of supervisors and internal policies. Successfully navigating these active matters will require an organized approach to address the unique challenges posed by each art unit and examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KINCAID, LESTER G | 1 | 61.8% | +7.7% |
| CHOI, WOO H | 1 | 83.5% | -4.1% |
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 67.7% | +25.4% |
| KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C | 1 | 81.5% | +16.9% |
| TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | 1 | 86.6% | +4.1% |
| MUNION, JAMES E | 1 | 76.5% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405412 | VOLTAGE-ADAPTIVE MEMORY | KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18540191 | LIGHT SENSING LOW ENERGY WIRELESS TAG | TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640652 | TAG LOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3d overdue |
| 19002312 | WIRELESS SAMPLER TRANSMITTER | KINCAID, LESTER G | — |
| 18659875 | OSCILLATOR CALIBRATION FROM OVER-THE AIR SIGNALS | CHOI, WOO H | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640652 | TAG LOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3d overdue |
| 18405412 | VOLTAGE-ADAPTIVE MEMORY | KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18537082 | SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING DOORS STATES | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3992 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 2138 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002312 | WIRELESS SAMPLER TRANSMITTER | KINCAID, LESTER G | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18659875 | OSCILLATOR CALIBRATION FROM OVER-THE AIR SIGNALS | CHOI, WOO H | 3992 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18640652 | TAG LOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18405412 | VOLTAGE-ADAPTIVE MEMORY | KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C | 2138 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18540191 | LIGHT SENSING LOW ENERGY WIRELESS TAG | TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | 2878 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18537082 | SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING DOORS STATES | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial