Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Friendlybuzz Company Pbc has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This represents a perfect distribution where every one of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. This level of fragmentation suggests a diverse range of communication technologies within the portfolio.
ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 pending office actions is in a separate art unit, the company must navigate three different sets of administrative guidelines. This requires the company to manage 3 distinct examiner relationships across 3 distinct art units. Such a decentralized structure for 3 pending actions means that prosecution outcomes will depend heavily on the specific practices of each individual examiner and unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 1 | 89.7% | +7.4% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
| JOSHI, SURAJ M | 1 | 71.8% | +16.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660113 | VOICE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON | ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 89d overdue |
| 18660163 | INTERACTIVE AI TOY CAPABLE OF HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON, AND METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH SAME | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563854 | METHOD OF MATCHING ANALYTICS AND COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT | JOSHI, SURAJ M | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2657 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18660113 | VOICE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON | ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 2657 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18660163 | INTERACTIVE AI TOY CAPABLE OF HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON, AND METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH SAME | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18563854 | METHOD OF MATCHING ANALYTICS AND COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT | JOSHI, SURAJ M | 2447 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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