Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gemological Institute Of America Inc. is active in the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. All of these matters are being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the current pending workload. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the 3 pending office actions are being reviewed by a single specialized group.
Prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners. TUMEBO, TSION M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split among the examiners within the single unit. This one-to-one ratio ensures that each matter is being handled by a different individual despite being housed in 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUMEBO, TSION M | 1 | 66.5% | +20.2% |
| BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DHILLON, PUNEET S | 1 | 80.6% | +20.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043276 | FEATURE MEASUREMENT FOR GEM IDENTIFICATION | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988504 | IMAGING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | DHILLON, PUNEET S | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988504 | IMAGING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | DHILLON, PUNEET S | 56d |
| 19048001 | SAMPLE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | TUMEBO, TSION M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19048001 | SAMPLE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | TUMEBO, TSION M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19043276 | FEATURE MEASUREMENT FOR GEM IDENTIFICATION | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18988504 | IMAGING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | DHILLON, PUNEET S | 2488 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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