Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Focal Point Positioning Limited maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action being handled by 1 distinct examiner, MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA. This examiner is responsible for the pending workload in 1 distinct art unit. The 1 pending office action assigned to MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA represents the current focus of the company's intellectual property efforts.
With 1 distinct examiner involved in the process, the portfolio shows a centralized examination path. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner, MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA, manages 1 pending office action for this entity. This concentration suggests that the company's current strategy is focused on a specific technical niche within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit serves as the environment for the company's active prosecution. This specific focus allows for direct interaction with the patent office regarding its pending applications. Because the 1 distinct examiner handles the entire pending inventory, practitioners can expect the perspective of the 1 distinct examiner to define the current prosecution cycle within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 1 | 72.0% | +29.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A FREQUENCY RELATED PARAMETER OF A FREQUENCY SOURCE USING PREDICTIVE CONTROL | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18388703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A FREQUENCY RELATED PARAMETER OF A FREQUENCY SOURCE USING PREDICTIVE CONTROL | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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