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
Earswitch Ltd. is navigating the Communications technology area with 1 pending office action currently requiring a response. This indicates a targeted prosecution strategy for the company's communication-related innovations. The firm is focused on resolving this single matter to secure its intellectual property rights.
The examination of this portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This centralized structure means that the company's technology is being evaluated within a specific technical silo at the patent office. For the practitioner, this lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the prosecution landscape, as there is only one set of departmental standards to navigate.
BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE is the busiest examiner assigned to this portfolio. This individual is currently managing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE is responsible for the company's entire pending workload, the success of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on this examiner. A deep understanding of the specific preferences of BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE is essential for resolving the 1 pending office action efficiently.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE | 1 | 64.0% | +39.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274804 | HEARING APPARATUS | BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18274804 | HEARING APPARATUS | BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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