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
Dongrim Tns Co. Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio focused on the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, reflecting a targeted and specific engagement with the patent office. This level of 1 pending office action suggests that the company is focusing its resources on securing a particular communication-related innovation.
The prosecution environment for Dongrim Tns Co. Ltd. is concentrated, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated within a single technical silo at the patent office. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is simplified, as it only needs to address the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and the 1 distinct examiner.
BURGDORF, STEPHEN R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. As the only 1 examiner involved in the company's current prosecution, Burgdorf's individual approach to the Communications field will be the primary factor in the outcome. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that this is the only active point of contact between Dongrim Tns Co. Ltd. and the patent office, allowing for a focused legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 1 | 64.0% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724688 | INTERSECTION SIGNAL PHASING SYSTEM BASED ON DISTANCE BETWEEN INTERSECTIONS | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724688 | INTERSECTION SIGNAL PHASING SYSTEM BASED ON DISTANCE BETWEEN INTERSECTIONS | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 2685 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
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