Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Freshape SA currently has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a fragmented prosecution landscape for the company.
FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units means that each pending matter is being handled by a different person in a different technical group.
For practitioners, the 3 pending office actions require managing separate examiner relationships across 3 different art units. Since FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK and the other examiners each have a single pending action, there is no concentration of workload. This distribution suggests that the company's communications filings cover a variety of distinct technical sub-sectors, requiring a broad and adaptable prosecution approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | 1 | 68.6% | +14.9% |
| HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 1 | 29.0% | +17.6% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.8% | +37.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691931 | PROCESS OF SIGNING DOCUMENTS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 89d overdue |
| 17800793 | ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KING, GEORGE G | 47d |
| 18878374 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A POSITION DETERMINATION DEVICE | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691931 | PROCESS OF SIGNING DOCUMENTS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 89d overdue |
| 17800793 | ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KING, GEORGE G | 47d |
| 18878374 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A POSITION DETERMINATION DEVICE | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2622 | 1 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878374 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A POSITION DETERMINATION DEVICE | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | 2622 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18691931 | PROCESS OF SIGNING DOCUMENTS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 2682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 17800793 | ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KING, GEORGE G | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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