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
Afiniti Al Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single action is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical scope for the company's current patent activity. The concentration in 1 art unit allows the company to tailor its prosecution approach to the specific guidelines of that USPTO division.
The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending action, the company's immediate patent success is tied to a single point of contact. This one-to-one ratio simplifies the management of the portfolio but makes the outcome highly dependent on the specific examiner's review.
The focus on Communications ensures that the legal strategy remains aligned with the specific patentability standards of that technology sector. With only 1 pending action, the company can dedicate its resources to resolving the specific issues raised by NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH to advance the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 1 | 79.4% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSITIONING MULTI-CHANNEL CALL CENTER CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE VIA USER INTERFACES | NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSITIONING MULTI-CHANNEL CALL CENTER CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE VIA USER INTERFACES | NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 2694 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
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