Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edst LLC currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are split across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's active prosecution is divided between 2 technical classifications. This division suggests that the company's innovations in communications are being evaluated by 2 different specialized groups within the patent office.
The workload involves 2 distinct examiners. PENDLETON, DIONNE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means that PENDLETON, DIONNE handles 2 of the company's 3 total pending actions, while the remaining action is assigned to the other distinct examiner. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the prosecution is relatively concentrated. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the preferences of PENDLETON, DIONNE, as this examiner manages 2 of the 3 active matters.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2 | 69.8% | +15.7% |
| MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 1 | 49.1% | +50.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620121 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES TO PROVIDE AN APARTMENT SEEKER WITH PRE-APPROVAL PRIOR TO APPLYING AND PAYING AN APPLICATION FEE TO A RENTAL COMMUNITY | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822751 | SMART THERMOSTAT HUB | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 40d |
| 19200311 | SMART THERMOSTAT HUB | PENDLETON, DIONNE | — |
| 18620121 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES TO PROVIDE AN APARTMENT SEEKER WITH PRE-APPROVAL PRIOR TO APPLYING AND PAYING AN APPLICATION FEE TO A RENTAL COMMUNITY | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200311 | SMART THERMOSTAT HUB | PENDLETON, DIONNE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18822751 | SMART THERMOSTAT HUB | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18620121 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES TO PROVIDE AN APARTMENT SEEKER WITH PRE-APPROVAL PRIOR TO APPLYING AND PAYING AN APPLICATION FEE TO A RENTAL COMMUNITY | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
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