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
Apera AI Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, which suggests a narrow focus for the company's current legal activities at the USPTO. This concentration within the art unit indicates that the subject matter of the pending application is specialized and does not currently span multiple technical domains.
AKHAVANNIK, HADI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for the pending office action. Since there is only the examiner involved in the pending action, the outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on the interactions with this specific individual. This centralization allows for a dedicated focus on the examiner's specific art unit practices and past decision-making patterns. Legal teams can prioritize understanding the examiner's preferences to optimize the chances of a favorable outcome for the pending action without the complexity of multiple art unit standards.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 1 | 85.9% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18318718 | PICK AND PLACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 38d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18318718 | PICK AND PLACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 38d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18318718 | PICK AND PLACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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