Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cohere Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Computing & Software technology area. This single active matter is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution footprint at this stage. The lack of distribution across multiple examiners suggests that the portfolio's current activity is limited to a specific technological niche or a single patent family, requiring a very targeted legal strategy.
GIROUX, GEORGE is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this individual handles the entirety of the pending workload, the prosecution strategy for Cohere Inc. is presently dependent on the specific tendencies and requirements of this one examiner. Practitioners should monitor this examiner's specific art unit practices, as the 1 distinct art unit involved will dictate the procedural framework for the company's current patent applications. This concentration of 1 pending office action under a single official means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are not diversified across different USPTO perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIROUX, GEORGE | 1 | 65.3% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17585380 | INTERLOCKING BACKPROBAGATION FOR AUTOMATED TRAINING OF COMPUTER PREDICTIVE MODELS | GIROUX, GEORGE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17585380 | INTERLOCKING BACKPROBAGATION FOR AUTOMATED TRAINING OF COMPUTER PREDICTIVE MODELS | GIROUX, GEORGE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2128 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17585380 | INTERLOCKING BACKPROBAGATION FOR AUTOMATED TRAINING OF COMPUTER PREDICTIVE MODELS | GIROUX, GEORGE | 2128 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2022 |
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