Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The patent portfolio for Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Fõrderung Der Angewandten Forschung E V currently shows 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a spread of oversight even within a concentrated technical field. All activity is presently contained within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific focus for the current filings in this portfolio.
Practitioners should note that NG, JONATHAN K is identified as the busiest examiner for this entity. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio, the workload is distributed across multiple individuals. This distribution may influence the overall prosecution pace for the active matters.
The concentration of all pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit allows for a specialized approach to prosecution strategy. Legal teams can focus on the specific procedural nuances and prior art trends prevalent in that single unit. While the 2 distinct examiners might have different individual styles, the shared art unit environment provides a common framework for addressing the 2 pending office actions currently on the docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NG, JONATHAN K | 1 | 35.6% | +14.0% |
| CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | 1 | 59.3% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18446206 | DATA CARRIER, TEST ENVIRONMENT, AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING AN EXPERIENCE OF COMFORT IN A ROOM IN A BUILDING | NG, JONATHAN K | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17450818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A DEEP FILTER | CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | 131d overdue |
| 18446206 | DATA CARRIER, TEST ENVIRONMENT, AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING AN EXPERIENCE OF COMFORT IN A ROOM IN A BUILDING | NG, JONATHAN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18446206 | DATA CARRIER, TEST ENVIRONMENT, AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING AN EXPERIENCE OF COMFORT IN A ROOM IN A BUILDING | NG, JONATHAN K | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 17450818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A DEEP FILTER | CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | 2659 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 131d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2021 |
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