Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 8 clients • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
MURABITO, HAO & BARNES LLP operates as a patent law firm in Computing & Software. The firm has managed 908 career applications and achieved a resolved allowance rate of 88.13 percent. Prosecution is intensive, requiring an average of 5.09 office actions per allowance.
The firm currently has 13 pending office actions. The 5.09 average office actions per allowance suggests a persistent prosecution strategy, where the firm engages in extensive negotiations with the patent office. This data is derived from 908 career applications in the Computing & Software technology area.
An 88.13 percent allowance rate shows a strong ability to secure grants despite the high number of office actions. Practitioners should be prepared for a longer prosecution cycle given the 5.09 average office actions per allowance. The 13 pending office actions represent the firm's current workload in this technical sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 4 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 2 | 73.5% | +16.2% |
| KIM, JAY C | 2 | 49.3% | +21.6% |
| KIYABU, KARIN A | 1 | 57.0% | +39.8% |
| LE, HOA T | 1 | 72.7% | +12.2% |
| ELISCA, PIERRE E | 1 | 90.2% | +6.4% |
| MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO | 1 | 76.1% | +14.6% |
| TSUI, WILSON W | 1 | 62.1% | +56.6% |
| SIGMOND, BENNETT M | 1 | 25.7% | +32.5% |
| PARENDO, KEVIN A | 1 | 72.2% | +11.5% |
| KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 1 | 79.4% | +24.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A VIRTUAL RACE EVENT BASED ON REAL-WORLD ACTIVITY USING A SPLIT SCREEN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | ELISCA, PIERRE E | 35d |
| 18369725 | METHOD OF FIELD PREPARATION FOR PLANTING USING RIPPER, AND TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 40d |
| 18421817 | UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION TO STRUCTURED DATA TRANSLATOR WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | TSUI, WILSON W | — |
| 18416786 | DEAL FLOW MANAGER WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | SIGMOND, BENNETT M | — |
| 18569162 | ELECTRON OVERFLOW OF AIGaN DEEP ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES | PARENDO, KEVIN A | — |
| 18369709 | TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507936 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 29d |
| 18200375 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | KIM, JAY C | 33d |
| 18369725 | METHOD OF FIELD PREPARATION FOR PLANTING USING RIPPER, AND TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 40d |
| 18649306 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING HIGHLY-FUNCTIONAL META-MATERIALS FROM LUMINESCING NANOPARTICLES | LE, HOA T | 84d |
| 19289564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTING WITH CONTENT THROUGH OVERLAYS ON A MOBILE DEVICE | KIYABU, KARIN A | — |
| 18423091 | METHOD OF FORMING A VIRTUAL NETWORK | MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO | — |
| 18421817 | UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION TO STRUCTURED DATA TRANSLATOR WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | TSUI, WILSON W | — |
| 18416786 | DEAL FLOW MANAGER WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | SIGMOND, BENNETT M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Alibaba | 2 |
| The Machine, LLC | 2 |
| University of Michigan | 2 |
| Monterey Pacific | 2 |
| Pixeldisplay, Inc. | 1 |
| Lena Faber | 1 |
| Primewan Limited | 1 |
| NS NANOTECH, INC. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 2815 | 2 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2635 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19289564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTING WITH CONTENT THROUGH OVERLAYS ON A MOBILE DEVICE | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | KIYABU, KARIN A | 2626 | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 18649306 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING HIGHLY-FUNCTIONAL META-MATERIALS FROM LUMINESCING NANOPARTICLES | Pixeldisplay, Inc. | LE, HOA T | 1788 | §112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18435921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A VIRTUAL RACE EVENT BASED ON REAL-WORLD ACTIVITY USING A SPLIT SCREEN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | Lena Faber, Inc. | ELISCA, PIERRE E | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18423091 | METHOD OF FORMING A VIRTUAL NETWORK | Primewan Limited | MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO | 2635 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18421817 | UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION TO STRUCTURED DATA TRANSLATOR WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | The Machine, LLC | TSUI, WILSON W | 2172 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18416786 | DEAL FLOW MANAGER WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | The Machine, LLC | SIGMOND, BENNETT M | 3694 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18569162 | ELECTRON OVERFLOW OF AIGaN DEEP ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES | The Regents of the University of Michigan | PARENDO, KEVIN A | 2896 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18507936 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 2139 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18369725 | METHOD OF FIELD PREPARATION FOR PLANTING USING RIPPER, AND TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL | Monterey Pacific Inc. | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18369709 | TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL | Monterey Pacific Inc. | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 3671 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18200375 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | The Regents of the University of Michigan | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 17800878 | MICROMETER SCALE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES | Ns Nanotech, Inc. | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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