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 • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG maintains a portfolio in the Communications technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This single matter represents the current focus of the company's patent prosecution efforts in the communications sector.
The prosecution is streamlined through 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the technical content of the filings falls under the jurisdiction of a single communications-focused group. This allows for a consistent examination experience without the variability of multiple art units.
KHAN, USMAN A is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual is responsible for the only active office action in the portfolio. The company's progress in the communications sector is currently tied to the specific review conducted by this examiner.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner across 1 pending office action ensures that the prosecution strategy remains focused on a single point of contact. This lack of diversity in art units suggests a specific technical focus. Such a structure may reduce the administrative burden of managing multiple examiner relationships.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, USMAN A | 1 | 74.9% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113738 | MODULAR ELECTRONIC CAMERA | KHAN, USMAN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113738 | MODULAR ELECTRONIC CAMERA | KHAN, USMAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18113738 | MODULAR ELECTRONIC CAMERA | KHAN, USMAN A | 2637 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
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