Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Azoteq Holdings Limited currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is receiving an independent review. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests a lack of examiner-level concentration, potentially leading to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio. The workload is spread across 3 distinct art units, showing that the company's technical subject matter falls under multiple specialized administrative groups.
ZAKARIA, AKM is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is only 1, the workload is perfectly balanced among the 4 distinct examiners involved. This distribution across 3 distinct art units in the Communications sector suggests that the company's patent strategy must account for the different requirements of multiple technical units and individual reviewers. With 4 pending office actions total, practitioners should be prepared for diverse feedback, as the 4 distinct examiners may have different interpretations of the communications-related claims.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.1% |
| ABEBE, SOSINA | 1 | 72.9% | +18.0% |
| CHATLY, AMIT | 1 | 67.9% | +13.3% |
| HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 1 | 57.8% | +34.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204990 | WAKE-UP CIRCUIT | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 33d |
| 19016097 | INDUCTIVE TOUCH SCREEN | ABEBE, SOSINA | 43d |
| 19035221 | NON-CONTACT INDUCTIVE SWITCH | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| 18791728 | MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS USING INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENTS | CHATLY, AMIT | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204990 | WAKE-UP CIRCUIT | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 33d |
| 19016097 | INDUCTIVE TOUCH SCREEN | ABEBE, SOSINA | 43d |
| 19035221 | NON-CONTACT INDUCTIVE SWITCH | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| 18791728 | MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS USING INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENTS | CHATLY, AMIT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19035221 | NON-CONTACT INDUCTIVE SWITCH | ZAKARIA, AKM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19016097 | INDUCTIVE TOUCH SCREEN | ABEBE, SOSINA | 2626 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18791728 | MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS USING INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENTS | CHATLY, AMIT | 2624 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18204990 | WAKE-UP CIRCUIT | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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