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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dormakaba España S A U currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single matter is assigned to examiner OMAR CASILLASHERNANDEZ, who is the only distinct examiner listed for the company's active portfolio. This concentration indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a single application and a single point of contact at the USPTO.
The portfolio's prosecution activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit. OMAR CASILLASHERNANDEZ is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, the workload is entirely centered on this individual. This structure suggests a highly specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity within the Communications sector.
For patent practitioners, this profile represents a straightforward prosecution environment with no distribution across different examiners or art units. The strategy for this portfolio depends entirely on the interaction with OMAR CASILLASHERNANDEZ. Since the company has only 1 pending office action, the outcome of this single matter will significantly impact the current status of their pending intellectual property in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 1 | 76.9% | +17.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683862 | METHOD FOR PREPARING FOR THE START-UP OF A CONTROL UNIT FOR ACCESS DEVICES, ACCESS SYSTEM, CONTROL UNIT, ACCESS DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683862 | METHOD FOR PREPARING FOR THE START-UP OF A CONTROL UNIT FOR ACCESS DEVICES, ACCESS SYSTEM, CONTROL UNIT, ACCESS DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18683862 | METHOD FOR PREPARING FOR THE START-UP OF A CONTROL UNIT FOR ACCESS DEVICES, ACCESS SYSTEM, CONTROL UNIT, ACCESS DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2689 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial