Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gist(Gwangju Institute Of Science And Technology) is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which suggests a range of communications-related research and development.
The busiest examiner for the institute is BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN, who is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed, with BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN handling 1 of the active cases. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units prevents a single examiner from dominating the institute's prosecution landscape.
Practitioners should recognize that managing 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions requires a flexible approach to different examination standards. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN is 1 of the active points of contact. This structure provides the institute with independent paths for its Communications 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MALEVIC, DJURA | 1 | 78.1% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18410525 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TASK-SPECIFIC SCENE STRUCTURE | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18410525 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TASK-SPECIFIC SCENE STRUCTURE | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 17749465 | TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT METHOD BASED ON THE FLUORESCENCE CHARACTERISTIC OF OPTICAL MATERIAL AND TEMPERATURE SENSOR USING THE SAME | MALEVIC, DJURA | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
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