Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
17 pending office actions • 1 client • 17 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 57 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 13 (76%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 1 | 36.2% | +16.2% |
| BUI, NHI QUYNH | 1 | 72.3% | +8.7% |
| VU, JIMMY T | 1 | 86.7% | +9.1% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 62.8% | +39.3% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 53.8% | +24.7% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +46.1% |
| KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 1 | 62.6% | +36.2% |
| JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE | 1 | 62.5% | +0.0% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 72.8% | +18.8% |
| PILLAY, DEVINA | 1 | 44.1% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846503 | LIGHT SOURCE DRIVING DEVICE AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | VU, JIMMY T | 23d 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841459 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 36d overdue |
| 18271617 | THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT ARRAY, INFRARED SENSOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT | PILLAY, DEVINA | 29d overdue |
| 18681644 | PACKAGE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A PACKAGE MATERIAL | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 5d overdue |
| 18285774 | GAS DETECTION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DIAGNOSING A PLANT, AND PLANT DIAGNOSING APPARATUS | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 22d |
| 18291442 | STEREOLITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | YE, XINWEN | 33d |
| 18225751 | FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL, AN APPARATUS FOR PURIFICATION OF A FLUID, AN APPARATUS FOR A CONTAINING A LIQUID, A PULVERIZED PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 40d |
| 18689766 | RECORDING MEDIUM, CARD, AND BOOKLET | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 79d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sony | 17 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 2 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841459 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | Sony Group Corporation | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 3628 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18880679 | SENSING SYSTEM FOR GRIP CONTROL, GRIPPING APPARATUS, ROBOT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME | Sony Group Corporation | BUI, NHI QUYNH | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18846503 | LIGHT SOURCE DRIVING DEVICE AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | VU, JIMMY T | 2844 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18689766 | RECORDING MEDIUM, CARD, AND BOOKLET | Sony Group Corporation | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18681644 | PACKAGE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A PACKAGE MATERIAL | Sony Group Corporation | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18291442 | STEREOLITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | Sony Group Corporation | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18285774 | GAS DETECTION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DIAGNOSING A PLANT, AND PLANT DIAGNOSING APPARATUS | Sony Group Corporation | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 2896 | §112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18284013 | TAPE CARTRIDGE, METHOD OF PRODUCING TAPE CARTRIDGE, AND TAPE REEL | Sony Group Corporation | JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 103d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18225751 | FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL, AN APPARATUS FOR PURIFICATION OF A FLUID, AN APPARATUS FOR A CONTAINING A LIQUID, A PULVERIZED PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | Sony Corporation | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18271617 | THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT ARRAY, INFRARED SENSOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT | Sony Group Corporation | PILLAY, DEVINA | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18035984 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND RANGING APPARATUS | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | BOLDA, ERIC L | 3645 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18035334 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING CARTRIDGE, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS | Sony Group Corporation | RICKMAN, HOLLY C | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 17928774 | QUANTUM DOT ENSEMBLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, QUANTUM DOT ENSEMBLE LAYER, AND IMAGING DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17915640 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING DEVICE | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | LI, MEIYA | 2811 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17781912 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | VU, HUNG K | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | 155d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17773312 | SURFACE EMISSION LASER, SURFACE EMISSION LASER ARRAY, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND SURFACE EMISSION LASER MANUFACTURING METHOD | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | HAGAN, SEAN P | 2828 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
| 17642436 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, WAVELENGTH CONVERSION UNIT, AND HEADLIGHT OR DISPLAY APPARATUS | Sony Group Corporation | CHEN, DAVID Z | 2815 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Mar 11, 2022 |
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