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
Discovery Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, BALSECA, FRANKLIN D. The portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, showing a specific focus within the communications field. With 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated on a single matter.
The busiest examiner, BALSECA, FRANKLIN D, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action constitutes the entire pending workload of 1 pending office action for the company. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution path is straightforward and centralized. Practitioners can tailor their approach to the specific tendencies of this one examiner. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is well-defined within the communications sector. Successful prosecution will depend on effectively addressing the specific requirements of BALSECA, FRANKLIN D. This centralized structure allows for a highly efficient and targeted patent strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALSECA, FRANKLIN D | 1 | 60.4% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19029241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING VEHICLE TELEMATICS DATA | BALSECA, FRANKLIN D | 43d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19029241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING VEHICLE TELEMATICS DATA | BALSECA, FRANKLIN D | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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