Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Buffalo Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. Seahvosh J Nikmanesh is the busiest examiner for Buffalo Inc., currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
This means the 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they likely share a common technical supervisory environment. Practitioners should maintain consistency in their technical arguments across the pending matters, as they are both being processed within the same art unit. The company's current standing in the Communications sector is defined by these interactions across 2 distinct examiners.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J | 1 | 86.2% | +12.7% |
| GENACK, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.5% | +21.6% |
| NGUYEN, BENJAMIN HUY DINH | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780688 | WIRELESS DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609159 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE | NGUYEN, BENJAMIN HUY DINH | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780688 | WIRELESS DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J | — |
| 18632276 | ACCESS POINT DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE | GENACK, MATTHEW W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2645 | 1 |
| 2649 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18780688 | WIRELESS DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18632276 | ACCESS POINT DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE | GENACK, MATTHEW W | 2645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18609159 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE | NGUYEN, BENJAMIN HUY DINH | 2649 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
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