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
Accuweather Inc. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Communications technology area. The portfolio shows a concentrated prosecution history with 1 pending office action. This single pending action represents the entirety of the active workload for the company at the patent office.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific focus for the current active matters. Practitioners can observe that the distribution of work is limited to a single point of contact within the USPTO infrastructure.
TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER is the busiest examiner identified for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This matches the total 1 pending office action for the entire company, showing that this individual manages all current active prosecution for the entity.
Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is dependent on the interactions with this specific individual. The lack of diversity in art units suggests a specialized set of filings within the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 1 | 82.7% | +10.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203708 | Platform for Producing Alerts Related to Severe Weather and Non-Weather Events | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203708 | Platform for Producing Alerts Related to Severe Weather and Non-Weather Events | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19203708 | Platform for Producing Alerts Related to Severe Weather and Non-Weather Events | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 2689 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAccuweather Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John Alexander Tweel Jr. has the most, with 1 of Accuweather Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.