Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
D&M Holdings Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 3 pending office actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that each pending matter is assigned to a different person, preventing a concentration of the workload under a single examiner.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 3 distinct art units. This count of 3 distinct art units matches the number of 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners. GANMAVO, KUASSI A is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 is consistent with the overall distribution of the portfolio.
Practitioners should note that the 3 distinct art units represent a variety of examination environments for a portfolio of this size. The lack of overlap between the 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored specifically for each individual case. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current pending matters.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 1 | 70.6% | +20.2% |
| FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 1 | 84.1% | +12.3% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.3% | +45.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | — |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | — |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | — |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100299 | AUDIO SYSTEM, AUDIO DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2654 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18849902 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18845313 | SOUNDBAR DEVICE, AUDIO SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHOD OF SOUNDBAR DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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