Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flatfrog Laboratories AB has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units and are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. This means that each of the company's 2 pending applications is being reviewed in a different technical environment by a different individual. This decentralized structure for only 2 actions requires a tailored approach for each case.
Ibrahim A. Khan is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently under review. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for the 2 pending actions, there is no overlap in the current prosecution landscape. This requires the company to address the specific requirements of 2 different art units and the individual styles of 2 different examiners within the Communications field. Practitioners must ensure that their advocacy is specifically adapted to the technical standards of each of the 2 art units. The lack of concentration among examiners or units means that the progress of each application is independent of the other.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 1 | 82.1% | +12.2% |
| BODDIE, WILLIAM | 1 | 27.2% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19356834 | TOUCH-SENSING APPARATUS | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566918 | A TOUCH SENSING DISPLAY AND TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566918 | A TOUCH SENSING DISPLAY AND TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 14d |
| 19356834 | TOUCH-SENSING APPARATUS | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2628 | 1 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19356834 | TOUCH-SENSING APPARATUS | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 2628 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2025 |
| 18566918 | A TOUCH SENSING DISPLAY AND TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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