Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case receives an independent review. The prosecution is also divided across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's Communications innovations touch upon different technical specialties.
VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 of the pending actions. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across the available examiners. This structure, involving 2 distinct art units, means the company must tailor its prosecution strategy to different technical environments within the Communications sector.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners for the pending actions indicates a lack of concentration in the examination process. For a practitioner, this distribution requires managing separate paths to patent allowance while maintaining consistency in the company's technical disclosures. The involvement of 2 distinct art units highlights the multifaceted nature of the company's current intellectual property filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 1 | 23.9% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953909 | FREE SPACE OPTICS COHERENT RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE USING OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18953909 | FREE SPACE OPTICS COHERENT RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE USING OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 2634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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