Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fcl Components Limited has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are divided between 2 distinct art units, showing a concentrated technical focus within the communications sector. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different individual at the USPTO. This distribution ensures that the company receives a variety of perspectives on its communications applications.
DAVIS, DAVID DONALD is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the company must manage three separate examiner relationships. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that even within a small portfolio, the company is encountering a variety of examination approaches. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific preferences of each of the 3 distinct examiners while remaining mindful of the standards in the 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 1 | 70.4% | +9.3% |
| MRUK, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 92.4% | +3.0% |
| HULBERT, AMANDA K | 1 | 84.6% | +4.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014711 | ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND PRINTER | MRUK, GEOFFREY S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19225439 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH PANEL | DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 31d overdue |
| 18676047 | DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND MODEL GENERATION DEVICE | HULBERT, AMANDA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19225439 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH PANEL | DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 2627 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19014711 | ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND PRINTER | MRUK, GEOFFREY S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18676047 | DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND MODEL GENERATION DEVICE | HULBERT, AMANDA K | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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