Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Xsensor Technology Corporation is managing 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning no two pending matters are currently being reviewed by the same person. These examiners are located across 2 distinct art units, providing some technical variety in the review process while maintaining a relatively narrow departmental focus.
BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW is the busiest examiner, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 4 pending office actions are spread evenly across the 4 distinct examiners. The distribution across 2 art units suggests that the company's semiconductor and optics innovations are being evaluated by at least two different technical groups within the office. This spread requires practitioners to manage multiple examiner timelines and technical interpretations simultaneously.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | 1 | 84.2% | +11.1% |
| WALSH, RYAN D | 1 | 86.9% | +5.6% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.8% | +1.0% |
| HASTY, NICHOLAS | 1 | 51.7% | +32.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170366 | Intelligent Seat Systems | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885367 | FOOT SENSOR AND OTHER SENSOR PADS | WALSH, RYAN D | 42d overdue |
| 18814377 | DETERMINING SEATBELT POSITION WITH PRESSURE SENSING GARMENT | PLUMB, NIGEL 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170366 | Intelligent Seat Systems | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | — |
| 17202652 | Bedding System with a CNN Based Machine Vision Process | HASTY, NICHOLAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| 2141 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19170366 | Intelligent Seat Systems | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 18885367 | FOOT SENSOR AND OTHER SENSOR PADS | WALSH, RYAN D | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18814377 | DETERMINING SEATBELT POSITION WITH PRESSURE SENSING GARMENT | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 17202652 | Bedding System with a CNN Based Machine Vision Process | HASTY, NICHOLAS | 2141 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2021 |
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