Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Communications Test Design Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. WEST, LEWIS G is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The fact that 3 distinct art units are involved for only 3 pending office actions indicates a high degree of technical diversity within the company's communications-related filings. Each of the 3 distinct examiners is working in a different unit. This requires the prosecution team to adapt to the specific standards of 3 distinct art units to resolve the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | 1 | 68.4% | +50.0% |
| WEST, LEWIS G | 1 | 83.4% | +7.5% |
| POON, DANA LEE | 1 | 55.4% | +41.8% |
| RHIM, WOO CHUL | 1 | 78.6% | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18956070 | REMOTE RADIO HEAD UNIT HIGH HEAT FUNCTIONALITY TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME | WEST, LEWIS G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE MACHINE-READABLE CODE USING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION | RHIM, WOO CHUL | 36d |
| 18657073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DRY ICE | POON, DANA LEE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE MACHINE-READABLE CODE USING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION | RHIM, WOO CHUL | 36d |
| 19056167 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETECT COMPONENTS OF FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM | WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | — |
| 18657073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DRY ICE | POON, DANA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2699 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056167 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETECT COMPONENTS OF FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM | WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18956070 | REMOTE RADIO HEAD UNIT HIGH HEAT FUNCTIONALITY TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME | WEST, LEWIS G | 2699 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18657073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DRY ICE | POON, DANA LEE | 4100 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18521989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE MACHINE-READABLE CODE USING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION | RHIM, WOO CHUL | 2676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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