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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Baobab Studios Inc. has 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This prosecution activity is focused in the Communications technology area. The company's current interactions with the patent office involve 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is AHN, CHRISTINE YERA, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This individual manages the total volume of pending actions for the portfolio. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical focus within the Communications sector.
Because there is 1 pending office action, the immediate success of the portfolio relies on the resolution of this matter. AHN, CHRISTINE YERA is the examiner currently reviewing the company's work, making their specific examination patterns critical for the practitioner to understand. This centralized prosecution structure allows for a very targeted response strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHN, CHRISTINE YERA | 1 | 68.0% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603038 | PARTIAL SUBDIVISION SURFACES | AHN, CHRISTINE YERA | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18603038 | PARTIAL SUBDIVISION SURFACES | AHN, CHRISTINE YERA | 2615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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