Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Antidot is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused technical review for this software-related application. By concentrating on 1 distinct art unit, the company can tailor its legal arguments to the specific technical standards and prior art common to the Computing & Software sector.
DISTEFANO, GREGORY A is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action, the prosecution is centralized. This provides a clear and singular path for the company's computing filings. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of DISTEFANO, GREGORY A to effectively move the 1 pending office action toward allowance. With only 1 pending office action in the portfolio, the company's immediate success in the Computing & Software area depends on the outcome of this 1 examination.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 1 | 69.6% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709259 | USER TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2174 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709259 | USER TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 2174 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
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