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
Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, WATKO, JULIE ANNE, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated effort in a specific technical field.
The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 pending office action, which is handled by 1 distinct examiner. WATKO, JULIE ANNE is the sole examiner responsible for the current workload. Additionally, the involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current prosecution is not spread across multiple technical divisions.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and the preferences of WATKO, JULIE ANNE. With 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent strategy is tied to this single interaction. The data confirms that there are no other pending actions or examiners currently active for this company in the provided set.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKO, JULIE ANNE | 1 | 75.2% | +12.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866095 | INPUT PANELS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC FORCE SENSING AND HAPTIC FEEDBACK | WATKO, JULIE ANNE | 17d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866095 | INPUT PANELS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC FORCE SENSING AND HAPTIC FEEDBACK | WATKO, JULIE ANNE | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866095 | INPUT PANELS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC FORCE SENSING AND HAPTIC FEEDBACK | WATKO, JULIE ANNE | 2627 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
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