Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dot Incorporation currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent filings cover diverse sub-technologies within the broader communications field, requiring coordination across different patent office groups. This variety in the prosecution landscape means the company must adapt its arguments to meet the standards of different technical units and the preferences of multiple examiners.
JENNIFER L ZUBAJLO is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending actions are split between different examiners and units, the company faces a varied prosecution landscape where each application is subject to different examination styles and art unit standards. This decentralized approach can be more complex to manage than a concentrated portfolio, as it involves multiple distinct examiners. Practitioners must be prepared to address the specific technical requirements of each art unit to successfully advance the current workload.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 1 | 70.4% | +22.8% |
| ELISCA, PIERRE E | 1 | 90.2% | +6.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17994315 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMPLEX INFORMATION INCLUDING BRAILLE INFORMATION AND VOICE INFORMATION | ELISCA, PIERRE E | 191d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651287 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18651287 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 17994315 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMPLEX INFORMATION INCLUDING BRAILLE INFORMATION AND VOICE INFORMATION | ELISCA, PIERRE E | 3715 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 191d overdue | Pending | Nov 26, 2022 |
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