Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
3D Smile Usa Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated effort for the company's current patent filings. The focus on the Communications sector implies that the pending matter involves technologies related to data transmission or networking.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is AKHAVANNIK, HADI, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With only 1 pending action, the company's prosecution strategy is focused on this examiner's feedback and the specific rules of the 1 art unit. Practitioners should prepare a targeted response to address the concerns raised in this action. This portfolio, consisting of 1 pending action and 1 examiner, allows for a direct and efficient prosecution process without the need to manage conflicting deadlines or examiner styles. The company can focus on the 1 distinct examiner to advance its position within the Communications technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 1 | 85.9% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AN IMAGE | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 164d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AN IMAGE | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 164d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18316319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AN IMAGE | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 164d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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