Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Focal Jmlab currently has 1 pending office action under review. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, JANICE JULIA PATYK, in a single distinct art unit. Because JANICE JULIA PATYK is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution activity is entirely centralized. The presence of only a single distinct art unit and a single distinct examiner suggests a very specific and focused patent application process at this stage. With no other pending matters, the company can focus its resources on this single interaction with JANICE JULIA PATYK.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATYK, JANICE JULIA | 1 | 97.9% | +2.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35527041 | Smart speaker | PATYK, JANICE JULIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35527041 | Smart speaker | PATYK, JANICE JULIA | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFocal Jmlab has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Janice Julia Patyk has the most, with 1 of Focal Jmlab's pending office actions.