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
Glass Service A S maintains 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This 1 matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a centralized prosecution footprint. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, the entire active workload is concentrated under this 1 examiner. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements of this 1 art unit and examiner without the need to manage additional office deadlines or varying examiner styles.
SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The limited scope of 1 pending action suggests a targeted or early-stage presence in the Communications sector for this entity. Since the company is only interfacing with 1 distinct examiner, the success of the current prosecution phase is tied directly to the resolution of this 1 case. This structure provides a clear and direct path for the company's intellectual property efforts in the Communications field.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 1 | 71.5% | +35.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562460 | METHOD OF CONTROL, CONTROL SYSTEM AND GLASS FURNACE, IN PARTICULAR FOR TEMPERATURE/THERMAL CONTROL | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562460 | METHOD OF CONTROL, CONTROL SYSTEM AND GLASS FURNACE, IN PARTICULAR FOR TEMPERATURE/THERMAL CONTROL | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562460 | METHOD OF CONTROL, CONTROL SYSTEM AND GLASS FURNACE, IN PARTICULAR FOR TEMPERATURE/THERMAL CONTROL | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 2669 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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