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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Accesso Technology Group PLC has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BROWN, VERNAL U, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BROWN, VERNAL U, who is responsible for 1 pending action. Because there is only 1 action total, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's currently pending workload.
For a practitioner, the prosecution strategy is entirely focused on the assigned art unit and the specific requirements of the examiner. The Communications designation suggests that the matter involves technical subject matter common to that USPTO division. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no internal baseline for comparison within the company's current data. The outcome of the pending matter will be determined by the interaction between the applicant and this single official. This centralized structure means that the success of the company's current USPTO activity depends on a single relationship and the procedural standards of the assigned unit. Practitioners must ensure that their arguments are precisely aligned with the official's past actions and the specific technical expectations of the division.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, VERNAL U | 1 | 69.6% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19192952 | QUEUING SYSTEM | BROWN, VERNAL U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19192952 | QUEUING SYSTEM | BROWN, VERNAL U | 2686 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
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