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
9494-1861 Québec Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently contains 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a very focused and singular administrative path for the company's current patenting efforts.
Thomas S McCormack is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, McCormack is the sole examiner currently engaged with the company's filings. This represents a highly centralized prosecution status where all current feedback is consolidated under one examiner and one art unit. The company can focus its strategy on the 1 pending office action without the need to coordinate across multiple examiners or the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners can expect a singular point of contact within the USPTO for these specific proceedings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCORMACK, THOMAS S | 1 | 80.1% | +3.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19126720 | ELECTRONICALLY ENABLED PILL ORGANIZER | MCCORMACK, THOMAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19126720 | ELECTRONICALLY ENABLED PILL ORGANIZER | MCCORMACK, THOMAS S | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
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