Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cavendish Capital LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's pending communications-related applications cover a variety of technical sub-fields or are being processed through different administrative channels. The use of 2 distinct art units indicates a broader technical scope than portfolios concentrated in a single unit.
The busiest examiner, SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each handling 1 of the 2 pending actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 shows that no single examiner dominates the company's current prosecution. This distribution requires the applicant to manage two separate examination tracks, each with its own set of technical requirements and examiner preferences within the communications sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 1 | 72.3% | +27.4% |
| PATEL, SHIVANG I | 1 | 75.0% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17653034 | MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18056252 | GENERATING AN AVATAR HAVING EXPRESSIONS THAT MIMICS EXPRESSIONS OF A PERSON | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 10d overdue |
| 17653034 | MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18056252 | GENERATING AN AVATAR HAVING EXPRESSIONS THAT MIMICS EXPRESSIONS OF A PERSON | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17653034 | MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 2615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
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