Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Data Detection Technologies Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ZONG, HELEN, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which will dictate the examination standards for this case.
The presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner indicates a focused prosecution environment. Because ZONG, HELEN is the only examiner involved, practitioners can focus their efforts on her specific requirements for the 1 pending office action. The 1 distinct art unit involved ensures that the technical review remains within a single specialized department.
With only 1 pending office action, the administrative load for Data Detection Technologies Ltd. is minimal. ZONG, HELEN manages the entirety of the active portfolio, which consists of this 1 pending office action in the Communications field. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a targeted legal strategy for the 1 pending office action currently under review.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZONG, HELEN | 1 | 79.2% | +8.6% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18570102 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING, COUNTING AND DISPENSING ITEMS | ZONG, HELEN | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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