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
Cser Ventures LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This action is assigned to a single distinct examiner, AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. With only a single distinct art unit involved, the company's current prosecution is concentrated in a single administrative and technical division of the patent office. This allows for a more streamlined approach to managing the application's progress through the examination phase.
The busiest examiner pending count of 1 shows that AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS holds the entire pending workload for the company. This examiner's perspective on software patentability will be the primary influence on the outcome of the current application. Since there is only a single distinct examiner and art unit, the company does not need to worry about conflicting feedback from different parts of the patent office. This focused prosecution profile suggests that the company is currently pursuing a specific technical advancement within the computing sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | 1 | 72.7% | +28.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17928717 | A SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING AN ARRANGEMENT OF FILES | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17928717 | A SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING AN ARRANGEMENT OF FILES | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | 2178 | §102 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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