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
Biotune Inc. maintains a patent portfolio within the Communications technology area. The current prosecution landscape for the company is focused, with 1 pending office action currently active. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a singular point of contact for the company's current legal efforts at the patent office. This arrangement can lead to a consistent dialogue between the applicant and the examiner.
The active filings are located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the pending applications. TUCKER, WESLEY J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this pending action represents the entirety of the portfolio's current office action workload, the examiner's review will be the sole factor in the immediate progress of these Communications filings. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific preferences of this examiner within the identified art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUCKER, WESLEY J | 1 | 83.7% | +5.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412809 | System, Method and Apparatus for Generating Acoustic Signals Based on Biometric Information | TUCKER, WESLEY J | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18412809 | System, Method and Apparatus for Generating Acoustic Signals Based on Biometric Information | TUCKER, WESLEY J | 2661 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
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