Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Elbex Video Ltd. maintains 2 pending office actions focused within the Communications technology area. These matters are handled by 1 distinct examiner, creating a centralized point of contact for the company's current patent applications. Furthermore, the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which implies that the pending claims fall under a consistent set of examination guidelines and technical standards. This concentration of 2 actions under 1 examiner can lead to more predictable outcomes if the examiner's preferences are well understood.
LEE, JAI M is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 2 pending office actions currently under review. This count represents the total volume of pending actions for the company, meaning this single examiner oversees all active disputes or evaluations. For the applicant, this concentration means that the outcomes of these 2 actions are entirely dependent on the interpretations and requirements of a single individual within the patent office. Practitioners should prioritize analyzing this examiner's history within the 1 art unit to optimize their response strategy.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, JAI M | 2 | 77.2% | +11.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18122097 | COMFORTABLE HAND-TOUCH WEARABLE HEARING-AID SYSTEM | LEE, JAI M | 61d |
| 18092240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROPAGATING OPTICAL BEAMY LIGHT AND COMBI SIGNALS VIA A CASCADED LINE OF SUPPORT DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY POWERED WIRING DEVICES AND LOW VOLTAGE IOTS AND AI DEVICES | LEE, JAI M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18122097 | COMFORTABLE HAND-TOUCH WEARABLE HEARING-AID SYSTEM | LEE, JAI M | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18092240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROPAGATING OPTICAL BEAMY LIGHT AND COMBI SIGNALS VIA A CASCADED LINE OF SUPPORT DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY POWERED WIRING DEVICES AND LOW VOLTAGE IOTS AND AI DEVICES | LEE, JAI M | 2634 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2022 |
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