Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foretellix Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Computing & Software technology area. This action is being reviewed by a distinct examiner, CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. This indicates a focused prosecution effort where the company's current active patent application is being handled by a single individual in the patent office. The applicant can tailor their legal arguments to the specific software-related interpretations of this examiner.
The presence of a distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented falls within a specific niche of the Computing & Software field. Because there is a distinct examiner involved, the applicant can tailor their legal strategy to the specific feedback and preferences of CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY. This centralized approach simplifies the prosecution process and allows for a consistent response to the pending office action. It also reduces the risk of receiving conflicting guidance from different parts of the USPTO.
With a solitary pending office action, the company can dedicate its full attention to resolving the issues raised in this single case. The distinct examiner and art unit provide a straightforward path for prosecution, as there are no other active matters to balance. This allows Foretellix Ltd. to focus its resources on securing its intellectual property within the Computing & Software domain through this pending action. This streamlined process is highly efficient for managing a targeted software patent portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | 1 | 7.7% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17646240 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING CONCRETE INSTANCES IN TRAFFIC SCENARIOS BY A TRANSFORMATION AS A CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17646240 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING CONCRETE INSTANCES IN TRAFFIC SCENARIOS BY A TRANSFORMATION AS A CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17646240 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING CONCRETE INSTANCES IN TRAFFIC SCENARIOS BY A TRANSFORMATION AS A CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | 2186 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2021 |
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