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
Apica Inc. has 1 pending office action located in the Computing & Software technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow focus for its outstanding patent matters. This concentration in that 1 distinct art unit within the computing field implies that the company's current legal efforts are directed at a very specific set of software innovations.
VO, TED T is identified as the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner manages the 1 pending office action for the company, making the individual examination style of VO, TED T the primary factor in near-term prosecution outcomes. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company does not currently face the challenge of coordinating different strategies across multiple patent office officials. Success will likely hinge on addressing the specific technical concerns raised by this particular examiner in the Computing & Software space.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, TED T | 1 | 81.2% | +9.3% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2191 | 1 |
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