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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
C Josef Lamy GmbH currently maintains a patent portfolio within the Communications technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current intellectual property is focused on a specific technical niche. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy only needs to account for the internal policies of a single unit.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, BOYD, JONATHAN A. This individual is also the busiest examiner for the company, as he is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is 1 pending matter in the entire portfolio, this examiner's specific interpretation of the Communications field will be the primary factor in the outcome. The presence of 1 distinct examiner allows for a focused communication channel during the examination process.
The 1 distinct art unit indicates a centralized prosecution environment. BOYD, JONATHAN A's role represents the totality of the company's current interactions with the patent office. Practitioners should focus their efforts on understanding this specific examiner's past decisions to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYD, JONATHAN A | 1 | 69.1% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037801 | DIGITAL PEN | BOYD, JONATHAN A | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037801 | DIGITAL PEN | BOYD, JONATHAN A | 2627 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
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