Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ateme maintains 3 pending office actions focused in the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a spread of intellectual property across different examination groups. This distribution indicates that the company's current patent applications cover a variety of technical sub-fields within the communications sector. No single art unit or examiner currently holds a majority of the pending cases, which requires a prosecution strategy tailored to the different standards of each unit.
KATHLEEN M BROUGHTON is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. This matter is included in the 3 total pending office actions currently active for the company. The parity between the number of pending actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each matter is being handled independently. Practitioners must manage the 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units separately, as there is no overlap in the personnel or departments reviewing the current applications.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 84.0% | +10.3% |
| CASTRO, ALFONSO | 1 | 51.0% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594932 | METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594932 | METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — |
| 18490001 | METHODS FOR MULTIMEDIA DATA DELIVERY AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | CASTRO, ALFONSO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2421 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18594932 | METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 2661 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18490001 | METHODS FOR MULTIMEDIA DATA DELIVERY AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | CASTRO, ALFONSO | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
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