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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
6Degrees Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action. This action is located in the Communications technology area, reflecting the company's focus on this technical field. With 1 pending office action, the portfolio's current prosecution activity is very concentrated.
The prosecution of this matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This relationship between the examiner and the art unit indicates a singular administrative path for the company's current filing. For practitioners, this means that the entirety of the company's active patent work is subject to the review of a specific individual in an office.
LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the whole of the 1 pending office action total. Because there is 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent outcomes are entirely dependent on the feedback from LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E.
This concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner simplifies the logistical aspects of the 1 pending office action. However, it also requires a highly targeted strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E. Practitioners should prepare for a focused interaction where the examiner's history in the Communications area will be the primary factor in the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 61.9% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18909461 | WEARABLE COMPUTER POINTING APPARATUS | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18909461 | WEARABLE COMPUTER POINTING APPARATUS | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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