Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Global Technology Inc. has 4 pending office actions focused in the Communications technology area. While these matters are handled by 4 distinct examiners, they are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that while individual examiner styles may vary, the overarching examination environment remains consistent across the portfolio. The use of a single art unit for all the actions implies a high degree of technical overlap in the company's pending applications.
Kenneth N Vanderpuye is the busiest examiner currently assigned to the company, handling 1 pending office action. Because the pending actions are spread across different examiners within a single art unit, practitioners should prepare for a variety of individual perspectives within a unified departmental framework. This requires balancing the specific feedback from Kenneth N Vanderpuye with the general policies of the art unit that governs all the pending matters. Since each examiner is only handling 1 pending action, no single person has an outsized impact on the portfolio's progress.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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% |
| BELLO, AGUSTIN | 1 | 75.4% | +12.0% |
| KAULFUSS, PETER LLOYD | 1 | — | — |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976589 | COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH MULTI-USE LASER EMITTER AND OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER THEREOF | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | — |
| 18793562 | MULTI-CHANNEL OPTICAL ASSEMBLY INCLUDING COMPONENT FOR PRESSING AGAINST OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CHIP AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION UNIT | KAULFUSS, PETER LLOYD | — |
| 18761969 | OPTICAL MODULE WITH DETACHABLE PULL TAB | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886616 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER INCLUDING CONNECTOR COUPLER WITH ELASTIC HOLDING ARM FOR HOLDING CONNECTOR | BELLO, AGUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18976589 | COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH MULTI-USE LASER EMITTER AND OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER THEREOF | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 2634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18886616 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER INCLUDING CONNECTOR COUPLER WITH ELASTIC HOLDING ARM FOR HOLDING CONNECTOR | BELLO, AGUSTIN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18793562 | MULTI-CHANNEL OPTICAL ASSEMBLY INCLUDING COMPONENT FOR PRESSING AGAINST OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CHIP AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION UNIT | KAULFUSS, PETER LLOYD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18761969 | OPTICAL MODULE WITH DETACHABLE PULL TAB | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
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