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
Centro Brasileiro De Pesquisas Físicas - Cbpf holds a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus in the company's current patent office interactions. The administrative scope of the portfolio is currently limited to the 1 pending office action. This concentration simplifies the management of deadlines and procedural responses for the applicant.
CHU, RANDOLPH I is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the only pending action in the portfolio. Prosecution strategy should be tailored specifically to the expectations of CHU, RANDOLPH I. Because there is 1 distinct art unit, the practitioner does not need to manage different procedural standards across multiple technical groups. The progress of the portfolio's pending work is dependent on the resolution of the issues raised by CHU, RANDOLPH I. A direct and technical response to this examiner is the primary path forward.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, RANDOLPH I | 1 | 80.3% | +6.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17971875 | METHOD OF AUTOMATIC CHARACTERIZATION AND REMOVAL OF PAD ARTIFACTS IN ULTRASONIC IMAGES OF WELLS | CHU, RANDOLPH I | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17971875 | METHOD OF AUTOMATIC CHARACTERIZATION AND REMOVAL OF PAD ARTIFACTS IN ULTRASONIC IMAGES OF WELLS | CHU, RANDOLPH I | 2667 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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