Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhuhai Kingsoft Office Software Co. Ltd. currently maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Computing & Software technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This examiner, SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM, is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action under his review. The prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical scope for the company's current applications.
Because the number of pending matters matches the count of 1 distinct examiner, each official is managing exactly 1 case. This distribution suggests a narrow scope of current engagement with the patent office, as the entirety of the workload is concentrated under the oversight of SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM. The alignment of the examiner and the 1 distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution is contained within a single technical channel. This structure allows for a direct relationship between the company and the specific individual assigned to its Computing & Software filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM | 1 | 73.5% | +13.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703678 | DOCUMENT TASK PROCESSING | SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703678 | DOCUMENT TASK PROCESSING | SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18703678 | DOCUMENT TASK PROCESSING | SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM | 2172 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
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