Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Expanse Plans LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. Because there is only 1 case pending, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload at the patent office.
The concentration of the portfolio is further reflected in the 1 distinct art unit involved in the prosecution process. Practitioners should note that the entire pending workload is handled by a single individual within a single technical group. This requires a strategy that is specifically tailored to the individual preferences of the 1 distinct examiner. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current footprint is limited to this specific interaction, allowing for a focused effort to resolve the outstanding issues in the Communications sector.
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 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 1 | 86.6% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING BASED ON A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 16d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING BASED ON A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18439150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING BASED ON A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 2612 | §101Other | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
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