Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xihua University currently has 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. DON GORDON ZHAO is the busiest examiner for the university, overseeing 1 pending office action.
The focus on 1 pending office action in Networking & Security suggests a targeted approach to patenting in this specific field. With only 1 distinct examiner and the distinct art unit involved, the university's current prosecution is highly centralized. This means the outcome of the university's active patent pursuit depends entirely on the evaluation of DON GORDON ZHAO within that single art unit.
Because the busiest examiner handles 1 pending office action, there is no diversification of examiner perspectives in the current portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the university's current intellectual property activity is confined to a specific niche of Networking & Security. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of this single examiner to navigate the pending office action 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, DON GORDON | 1 | 87.3% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555535 | METHOD FOR TRACING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT BASED ON META-UNIVERSE | ZHAO, DON GORDON | 46d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555535 | METHOD FOR TRACING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT BASED ON META-UNIVERSE | ZHAO, DON GORDON | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555535 | METHOD FOR TRACING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT BASED ON META-UNIVERSE | ZHAO, DON GORDON | 2493 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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