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
Cumulocity GmbH is currently managing 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This activity is located within the Computing & Software technology area. The prosecution involves a distinct examiner, concentrating the current legal interaction on a point of contact at the patent office. This focus allows for a direct communication channel regarding the pending matter.
The pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the current software-related application is being reviewed by a specific technical group. For the practitioner, this means the prosecution strategy can be tailored to the specific precedents and examination styles prevalent in that art unit. Understanding the specific requirements of this unit is essential for advancing the application.
DEROSE, VOLVICK is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing the 1 pending office action. As there is only a pending action in the entire portfolio, this examiner's review represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution efforts at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEROSE, VOLVICK | 1 | 90.0% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678455 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND/OR NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR AT LEAST ONE SENSOR IN AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) ENVIRONMENT | DEROSE, VOLVICK | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678455 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND/OR NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR AT LEAST ONE SENSOR IN AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) ENVIRONMENT | DEROSE, VOLVICK | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2176 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18678455 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND/OR NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR AT LEAST ONE SENSOR IN AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) ENVIRONMENT | DEROSE, VOLVICK | 2176 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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