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
Dream Chip Technologies GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This 1 active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution footprint is characterized by the presence of the active matter within this specific technical sector.
GILES, NICHOLAS G is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This workload is equal to the total pending office action count for the entire portfolio. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is presently tied to the evaluation of this 1 distinct examiner. The alignment of the assigned examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the active matter means that the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on the review of the assigned examiner. This centralized review process within the Communications area suggests that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a centralized point of evaluation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILES, NICHOLAS G | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841817 | METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSOR UNIT FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841817 | METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSOR UNIT FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841817 | METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSOR UNIT FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 2639 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
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