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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apitrak SAS currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This 1 action is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the current prosecution. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS, who is also designated as the busiest examiner for the company.
FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS is responsible for 1 pending action, which accounts for the entirety of the company's active office actions. The alignment of the pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a centralized point of contact within the USPTO for Apitrak SAS. This structure simplifies the management of the portfolio as there are no competing examiner timelines or differing art unit practices to navigate.
The focus on the Communications technology area is managed through the active prosecution. For a practitioner, this data shows a streamlined profile where the outcome rests with the assigned examiner in the specific technical group within the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 1 | 71.6% | +30.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857048 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A UWB MESSAGE USING A MODULATION GENERATING A TIME OFFSET OF THE DATA BITS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 28d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857048 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A UWB MESSAGE USING A MODULATION GENERATING A TIME OFFSET OF THE DATA BITS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857048 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A UWB MESSAGE USING A MODULATION GENERATING A TIME OFFSET OF THE DATA BITS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 2633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
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