Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Applied Optoelectronics Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner is BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL, who is responsible for 2 pending actions.
The concentration of 2 pending actions under BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL makes him a key figure in the current prosecution of this portfolio. With 4 pending actions total, the remaining matters are split among other examiners. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio's current activity is focused within a limited range of technical groups. This structure requires balancing a specialized focus in the assigned art units with the individual examination styles of 3 distinct examiners. The distribution of cases indicates a need for a coordinated strategy across the different personnel and technical groups involved in the Communications field.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2 | 74.8% | +11.3% |
| ELAHEE, MD S | 1 | 79.2% | +26.9% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792054 | LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA USING A PORTABLE NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS MODULE | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 56d |
| 18924107 | CATV HYBRID FIBER-COAXIAL NETWORK AMPLIFIER PORTABLE WIRELESS ADAPTER | ELAHEE, MD S | — |
| 18437607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2632 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924107 | CATV HYBRID FIBER-COAXIAL NETWORK AMPLIFIER PORTABLE WIRELESS ADAPTER | ELAHEE, MD S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18792054 | LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA USING A PORTABLE NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS MODULE | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18437607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2632 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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