Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Edgeverve Systems Limited has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's current communications-related filings are being examined by different specialized groups within the patent office. Practitioners must manage two distinct prosecution strategies tailored to the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved.
SHERMAN, STEPHEN G is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since both of the 2 distinct examiners handle 1 pending office action each, the workload is evenly split. This distribution indicates that the company's intellectual property in this sector touches on varied technical sub-specialties rather than being concentrated under a single supervisory group. Practitioners should prepare for diverse examination styles given that the 2 distinct art units likely apply different internal guidelines or prior art preferences within the Communications field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 1 | 82.2% | +16.8% |
| EDMONDS, DONALD J | 1 | 39.7% | +35.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981587 | EYE REFLECTIONS BASED IMPROVED PASSIVE LIVENESS DETECTION | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18431777 | METHOD AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF PLURALITY OF OUTLETS | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18431777 | METHOD AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF PLURALITY OF OUTLETS | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 12d |
| 18981587 | EYE REFLECTIONS BASED IMPROVED PASSIVE LIVENESS DETECTION | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981587 | EYE REFLECTIONS BASED IMPROVED PASSIVE LIVENESS DETECTION | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 2621 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2024 |
| 18431777 | METHOD AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF PLURALITY OF OUTLETS | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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