Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Essence Smartcare Ltd. has 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This pattern shows a degree of diversification for a small number of actions, as each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a unique art unit.
SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across multiple individuals, with no single examiner or art unit dominating the prosecution landscape. This variety in 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's communications technology spans several different technical classifications, requiring expertise from multiple specialized groups at the patent office. For the practitioner, this means managing 3 separate sets of examiner preferences and 3 distinct art unit standards simultaneously.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | 1 | 69.1% | +12.7% |
| MUNION, JAMES E | 1 | 76.5% | +23.7% |
| EL-ZOOBI, MARIA | 1 | 78.8% | +14.2% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868712 | MONITORING AN ENVIRONMENT TO CONTROL AN ACTIVE REFLECTED WAVE DETECTOR | SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | — |
| 18725117 | CONTROLLING THE MONITORING OF A PERSON OR AN ENVIRONMENT | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
| 18522066 | Emergency Call Capable System | EL-ZOOBI, MARIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868712 | MONITORING AN ENVIRONMENT TO CONTROL AN ACTIVE REFLECTED WAVE DETECTOR | SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18725117 | CONTROLLING THE MONITORING OF A PERSON OR AN ENVIRONMENT | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18522066 | Emergency Call Capable System | EL-ZOOBI, MARIA | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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