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
Assertion Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, HOQUE, NAFIZ E, who is also the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a very concentrated patenting effort where the outcome of the entire pending portfolio depends on a single examiner's evaluation.
Practitioners should focus their strategy entirely on the tendencies of HOQUE, NAFIZ E and the specific standards of the 1 art unit involved. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's current footprint in Communications is minimal but highly specific. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for the 1 pending action simplifies the administrative tracking of this portfolio. However, this lack of diversity in examiners means the company has no alternative paths if the current prosecution reaches an impasse. The focus on Communications suggests that the company is prioritizing its core telecommunications assets. Every decision made by the single examiner will have a total impact on the company's active USPTO presence. The company must ensure that its responses are perfectly aligned with the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOQUE, NAFIZ E | 1 | 75.7% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052701 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING OUTBOUND COMMUNICATION | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052701 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING OUTBOUND COMMUNICATION | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAssertion Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nafiz E Hoque has the most, with 1 of Assertion Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.