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
Flexoptix GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This pending matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is focused on a single application within this technical domain. This indicates a very narrow administrative footprint at the patent office, with no current activity in other art units or technology areas.
DARREN E WOLF is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the entire pending volume for the portfolio. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending action, the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to the review of this specific individual. For a practitioner, this means that the success of the company's current filings in the Communications sector is dependent on navigating the specific requirements of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLF, DARREN E | 1 | 85.0% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579295 | ADAPTER, TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ADAPTER | WOLF, DARREN E | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579295 | ADAPTER, TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ADAPTER | WOLF, DARREN E | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579295 | ADAPTER, TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ADAPTER | WOLF, DARREN E | 2634 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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