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
BAIRD, WILLIAM C., IV has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. This represents a highly focused prosecution profile with a single active matter.
YANG, JAMES J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the pending office action. The involvement of a distinct examiner and art unit for the pending action indicates a singular point of contact for all current prosecution.
In the Communications technology area, this pending office action is managed entirely by YANG, JAMES J. There are no other examiners or art units involved in the pending workload. This concentration means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interaction with this examiner in the art unit. This focused environment allows for a direct and consistent communication channel during the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, JAMES J | 1 | 57.0% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING LIQUID NITROGEN CONTAINER LEVEL | YANG, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18999187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING LIQUID NITROGEN CONTAINER LEVEL | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
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