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
Fontaine Fifth Wheel Company is managing 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KAM WAN MA, who serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. This focus allows for an analysis of the specific examiner's history and the art unit's typical patterns.
The presence of 1 pending office action represents the current volume of active patent prosecution. Because 1 distinct examiner is handling the case, the company's interaction with the patent office is limited to a single point of contact. This allows for a concentrated effort on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. By focusing on the 1 pending action of the busiest examiner, the company can ensure that its strategy in the Communications sector is aligned with the expectations of KAM WAN MA.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA, KAM WAN | 1 | 62.9% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19211986 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AND VERIFYING OPERATIONAL STATES OF FIFTH WHEELS | MA, KAM WAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211986 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AND VERIFYING OPERATIONAL STATES OF FIFTH WHEELS | MA, KAM WAN | 2688 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
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