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
Flarm Technology AG has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, MUNION, JAMES E. As the only examiner with an active matter, MUNION, JAMES E is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. The prosecution is currently focused within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical concentration for this filing.
The presence of 1 pending office action means that the company's current patent efforts are centralized. MUNION, JAMES E is responsible for 1 pending action, making this individual the sole point of contact for the current prosecution cycle. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a highly targeted legal strategy. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this 1 pending action to secure the company's communications intellectual property.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUNION, JAMES E | 1 | 76.5% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686332 | AIRCRAFT COLLISION AVOIDANCE METHOD AND DEVICE | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686332 | AIRCRAFT COLLISION AVOIDANCE METHOD AND DEVICE | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18686332 | AIRCRAFT COLLISION AVOIDANCE METHOD AND DEVICE | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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