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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aeris Communications Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This 1 pending office action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the prosecution process for the company's current intellectual property. The application is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the pending innovation within the communications field.
WEBB, MARGARET G is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently active for the portfolio. Consequently, the company's immediate prosecution success is entirely dependent on the decisions and timelines of this 1 distinct examiner within the 1 distinct art unit.
For a patent practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy should be highly tailored to the specific tendencies of WEBB, MARGARET G. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no opportunity to compare examination styles across different units for this portfolio. The singular nature of the matters in the Communications technology area simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of a single examiner's perspective.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB, MARGARET G | 1 | 79.9% | +8.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18065224 | METHOD OF USING HARDWARE IDENTIFIERS TO DETECT IoT SECURITY INCIDENTS | WEBB, MARGARET G | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18065224 | METHOD OF USING HARDWARE IDENTIFIERS TO DETECT IoT SECURITY INCIDENTS | WEBB, MARGARET G | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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