Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Abyss Solutions Pty Ltd. is navigating 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This 2 to 2 ratio for examiners and art units suggests that the company's active cases involve different technical sub-specialties. By engaging with 2 different art units, the company is subject to multiple sets of examination standards. For the practitioner, this distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the perspectives of different technical groups within the Communications field.
The busiest examiner is CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is divided among the examiners. Each examiner manages 1 action, meaning the portfolio's prosecution is split between the identified personnel. This distribution means the company's outcomes are influenced by the findings of 2 different examiners across 2 separate art units. Strategically, the legal team must monitor how CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT and the other examiner interpret the technical requirements of the Communications field.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 69.8% | +34.5% |
| DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 1 | 71.3% | +31.7% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565744 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SURFACE DEFORMATION DETECTION | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 59d overdue |
| 18565810 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING COATING DEGRADATION | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565810 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING COATING DEGRADATION | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18565744 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SURFACE DEFORMATION DETECTION | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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