Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Enel X S R L has 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. Both actions are assigned to a distinct examiner, CHARLES J CAI, in a distinct art unit. CHARLES J CAI is the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions, meaning a single examiner is responsible for all current prosecution activity for this company. This concentration allows for a consistent dialogue with the examiner across the active portfolio.
Managing the pending office actions with 1 distinct examiner provides an opportunity to build a rapport and understand the examiner's specific concerns regarding Computing & Software claims. Since CHARLES J CAI oversees the cases, the company can potentially use interviews to resolve issues across the applications simultaneously. This centralized prosecution in the distinct art unit simplifies the administrative burden but also means that the examiner's perspective will heavily influence the company's entire active patent pipeline. Practitioners should ensure that the strategy for an action does not negatively impact the other under the same examiner's review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI, CHARLES J | 2 | 83.1% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771107 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES | CAI, CHARLES J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790070 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES | CAI, CHARLES J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790070 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES | CAI, CHARLES J | — |
| 18771107 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES | CAI, CHARLES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2115 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790070 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES | CAI, CHARLES J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18771107 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES | CAI, CHARLES J | 2115 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
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