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
Dotlumen S R L currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Such a narrow distribution indicates that the company's current patent prosecution is highly focused on a specific technical niche. The alignment of 1 examiner across 1 art unit for this action provides a very clear view of the company's current legal standing.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MCCORMACK, THOMAS S, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner manages the entirety of the company's current workload. Practitioners should prepare for a prosecution environment where the outcome of the portfolio is determined by a single individual's interpretation of the prior art. The lack of variety in examiners and art units suggests a streamlined but singular point of contact with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCORMACK, THOMAS S | 1 | 80.2% | +3.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18944365 | Feedback unit, wearable device comprising the feedback unit and methods for visual guiding the movement of a visually impaired user having moderate impairment | MCCORMACK, THOMAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18944365 | Feedback unit, wearable device comprising the feedback unit and methods for visual guiding the movement of a visually impaired user having moderate impairment | MCCORMACK, THOMAS S | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDotlumen S R L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas S Mccormack has the most, with 1 of Dotlumen S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.