Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yondr Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. CUMMING, WILLIAM D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. There is no examiner or art unit overlap between the 2 pending office actions, meaning each case is being prosecuted in a unique technical and administrative environment. This distributed structure requires a case-specific approach for each application.
The 2 distinct art units suggest that the company's communications innovations fall into different specialized classifications. Because there is no overlap in examiners or art units, there is no opportunity to leverage shared insights between the 2 pending office actions. Practitioners must adapt to the specific requirements of each art unit and the individual styles of the 2 examiners. With only 2 pending office actions, the company's current footprint is small but technically diverse. Each prosecution effort is effectively independent, requiring focused management to address the unique challenges of each application. This profile indicates a need for precise, individualized strategies for the company's current pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMMING, WILLIAM D | 1 | 89.9% | +5.7% |
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.4% | +39.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19350895 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CUMMING, WILLIAM D | — |
| 18982298 | ELECTRONICS STORAGE DEVICE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982298 | ELECTRONICS STORAGE DEVICE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2645 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19350895 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CUMMING, WILLIAM D | 2645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 18982298 | ELECTRONICS STORAGE DEVICE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
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