Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Datum Point Labs Inc. manages 12 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating that the company's patent filings cover a broad spectrum of communication technologies. The prosecution workload is distributed among 12 distinct examiners, which means that every pending matter is currently being reviewed by a different person at the USPTO.
MICHAEL ALAN FOSTER JR. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, yet he handles only 1 pending office action. This total lack of concentration among the 12 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate a highly fragmented examination environment. With 6 distinct art units involved, the company's legal strategy must be adaptable to the different standards and practices of multiple administrative divisions.
The presence of 12 pending office actions and an equal number of examiners highlights the diversity of the company's current prosecution efforts. Because no individual examiner holds more than 1 pending office action, the portfolio's success is distributed across a wide range of individual officials. This requires a robust management system to ensure that the company's communications-related innovations are prosecuted consistently across the various art units.
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 | 3 (27%) |
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSTER JR., MICHAEL ALAN | 1 | — | — |
| PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA | 1 | 77.8% | +15.0% |
| COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 75.8% | +15.3% |
| KOLB JR, BRETT DAVID | 1 | — | — |
| LE, DEBBIE M | 1 | 89.5% | +10.4% |
| BALAKRISHNAN, VIJAY MURALI | 1 | 40.7% | +73.3% |
| POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 1 | 21.4% | +30.7% |
| LI, RAYMOND CHUN LAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LE, SARAH | 1 | 67.5% | +31.8% |
| SOLAIMAN, FOUZIA HYE | 1 | 65.7% | +55.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946726 | EFFICIENT RAG MODEL FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | LE, DEBBIE M | — |
| 18625844 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE TO 3D GENERATION | LI, RAYMOND CHUN LAM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067066 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERACTIONS | FOSTER JR., MICHAEL ALAN | — |
| 18953686 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-DOMAIN FACIAL LANDMARK DETECTION | PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA | — |
| 18626959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GESTURE GENERATION FROM TEXT AND NON-SPEECH | BALAKRISHNAN, VIJAY MURALI | — |
| 18627298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-PARTY TRANSACTIONS | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | — |
| 18625491 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3D-AWARE IMAGE GENERATION | LE, SARAH | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18604278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS | SOLAIMAN, FOUZIA HYE | 63d |
| 18953686 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-DOMAIN FACIAL LANDMARK DETECTION | PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA | — |
| 18953970 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPEECH GENERATION BY EMOTIONAL VOICE CONVERSION | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18946726 | EFFICIENT RAG MODEL FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | LE, DEBBIE M | — |
| 18626959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GESTURE GENERATION FROM TEXT AND NON-SPEECH | BALAKRISHNAN, VIJAY MURALI | — |
| 18627298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-PARTY TRANSACTIONS | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | — |
| 18625491 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3D-AWARE IMAGE GENERATION | LE, SARAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2614 | 2 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067066 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERACTIONS | FOSTER JR., MICHAEL ALAN | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18953686 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-DOMAIN FACIAL LANDMARK DETECTION | PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18953970 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPEECH GENERATION BY EMOTIONAL VOICE CONVERSION | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18954233 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEATURE DROPOUT KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION | KOLB JR, BRETT DAVID | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18946726 | EFFICIENT RAG MODEL FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | LE, DEBBIE M | 2168 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18626959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GESTURE GENERATION FROM TEXT AND NON-SPEECH | BALAKRISHNAN, VIJAY MURALI | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18627298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-PARTY TRANSACTIONS | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 3622 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18625844 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE TO 3D GENERATION | LI, RAYMOND CHUN LAM | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18625491 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3D-AWARE IMAGE GENERATION | LE, SARAH | 2614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18604278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS | SOLAIMAN, FOUZIA HYE | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18582292 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI ENABLED DELIVERY OF USER SPECIFIC SERVICES | NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
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