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
Canadian Natural Resources Limited manages a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for this company. This indicates a singular active matter within the patent office's current review cycle, reflecting a targeted approach to their communications-related intellectual property.
The prosecution is concentrated with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's communications technology is being reviewed within a specific administrative group. A focus on 1 distinct art unit can lead to a more streamlined prosecution process as the company only needs to account for the standards and examination tendencies of a single unit.
LAU, HOI CHING is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently handling the 1 pending office action. The immediate outcome for the company's patent filings depends on the specific examination and feedback provided by this examiner, whose individual review will determine the next steps in the process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, HOI CHING | 1 | 74.5% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393559 | DETECTING A MALFUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMPULSE LINE | LAU, HOI CHING | 9d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393559 | DETECTING A MALFUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMPULSE LINE | LAU, HOI CHING | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18393559 | DETECTING A MALFUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMPULSE LINE | LAU, HOI CHING | 2689 | §101 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
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