Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Barco N.V. currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. The portfolio exhibits high diversity in its prosecution, with 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units involved. This distribution means that every pending case is being evaluated in a unique administrative and technical environment, requiring the company to manage 4 separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. Practitioners should note that the lack of concentration in a single art unit or examiner prevents the use of a centralized strategy for these pending matters.
The busiest examiner for the company is BERARDESCA, PAUL M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 4 pending office actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's computing and software innovations span a wide range of technical sub-categories, each requiring a tailored prosecution approach. Success in this environment depends on addressing the specific requirements of 4 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERARDESCA, PAUL M | 1 | 79.3% | +17.1% |
| ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE | 1 | 42.0% | +9.7% |
| BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 67.9% | +11.8% |
| MISIURA, BRIAN THOMAS | 1 | 85.4% | +1.9% |
| LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 1 | 52.4% | +16.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828786 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING FUNCTIONAL DEVICES AVAILABLE TO PARTICIPANTS OF MEETINGS | MISIURA, BRIAN THOMAS | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862077 | THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL DIRECTOR | BERARDESCA, PAUL 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911814 | ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS WITH AUDIO FOR MEETINGS | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 44d overdue |
| 18862077 | THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL DIRECTOR | BERARDESCA, PAUL M | — |
| 17757106 | A LASER REFLECTION UNIT | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862077 | THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL DIRECTOR | BERARDESCA, PAUL M | 2637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18860996 | AUTOMATIC MODULE ARRAY MAPPING WITH INHERENT REDUNDANCY | ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18911814 | ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS WITH AUDIO FOR MEETINGS | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 2184 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18828786 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING FUNCTIONAL DEVICES AVAILABLE TO PARTICIPANTS OF MEETINGS | MISIURA, BRIAN THOMAS | 2175 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 17757106 | A LASER REFLECTION UNIT | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
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