Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cx360 Inc. is active in the Communications technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. Matthew Alan Cady is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action.
The 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, with each handling one action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that both matters are being evaluated under the same technical standards. Matthew Alan Cady's single pending action represents 1 of the 2 current matters.
Practitioners should ensure that arguments made in the 1 distinct art unit are consistent across both 2 pending office actions while addressing the specific feedback from Matthew Alan Cady. The Communications field requires a unified technical narrative within the single art unit. Successfully managing these 2 pending office actions involves balancing the individual examiner requirements with the departmental standards of the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HUYEN X | 1 | 83.4% | +19.9% |
| CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401159 | Artificial Intelligence Queries with Multiple Constraints | VO, HUYEN X | 2d overdue |
| 18401165 | PROMPT GENERATOR FOR TESTING | CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401159 | Artificial Intelligence Queries with Multiple Constraints | VO, HUYEN X | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18401159 | Artificial Intelligence Queries with Multiple Constraints | VO, HUYEN X | 2656 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18401165 | PROMPT GENERATOR FOR TESTING | CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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