Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecopia Tech Corporation has 1 pending office action currently active in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow point of engagement with the patent office. The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is MCCULLEY, RYAN D. This examiner is currently handling the pending office action, which represents the total volume of actions for the company.
The presence of the art unit suggests that the current prosecution activity is confined to a specialized technical group within the office. For a practitioner, this data indicates a focused prosecution environment. With the examiner and the Communications sector involved, the company's immediate patent strategy is centralized under MCCULLEY, RYAN D. This concentration means that the outcome of the current portfolio depends on the specific review of this individual. The strategy relies on navigating the requirements of the specific technical group and the assigned examiner without any other active cases to provide broader context.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLEY, RYAN D | 1 | 70.1% | +27.9% |
| DUONG, JOHNNYKHOI BAO | 1 | 64.5% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860493 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR GENERATIVE GEOMETRIC MODELLING | DUONG, JOHNNYKHOI BAO | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19176915 | ANNOTATION TOOLS FOR RECONSTRUCTING MULTI-FLOOR BUILDINGS | MCCULLEY, RYAN D | 12d |
| 18860493 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR GENERATIVE GEOMETRIC MODELLING | DUONG, JOHNNYKHOI BAO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19176915 | ANNOTATION TOOLS FOR RECONSTRUCTING MULTI-FLOOR BUILDINGS | MCCULLEY, RYAN D | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18860493 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR GENERATIVE GEOMETRIC MODELLING | DUONG, JOHNNYKHOI BAO | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
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