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
A-1 Packaging Solutions Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution effort. The presence of 1 pending action suggests that the company's current patent strategy is focused on a specific technical advancement rather than a large-scale filing campaign. This singular focus allows the applicant to concentrate its resources on resolving the issues raised in this one case.
The entirety of the pending workload is located within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the company's interactions with the patent office. SHERWIN, RYAN W serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the assigned matter, they manage the total volume of the company's current office action responses. This arrangement means that the success of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on the specific feedback and requirements issued by this single examiner in the pending application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERWIN, RYAN W | 1 | 66.7% | +22.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18217104 | Disposing RFID Tags in Concrete Surface | SHERWIN, RYAN W | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18217104 | Disposing RFID Tags in Concrete Surface | SHERWIN, RYAN W | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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