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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grote Industries Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution efforts are located in this area for its pending patent applications. Because the pending office action is situated within a distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy can be tuned to the communication-related standards of that unit. This allows for the allocation of legal resources toward this technical objective.
TRIEU, VAN THANH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This figure represents the total volume of active office actions for Grote Industries Inc. The prosecution is currently limited to the review of this examiner within this art unit. Consequently, the progress of the company's active portfolio depends on the feedback and requirements of TRIEU, VAN THANH. The presence of a distinct examiner means that the company manages this specific examiner interaction at this time.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRIEU, VAN THANH | 1 | 84.5% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814639 | REAR COLLISION WARNING DEVICE FOR A TRUCK TRAILER | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814639 | REAR COLLISION WARNING DEVICE FOR A TRUCK TRAILER | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18814639 | REAR COLLISION WARNING DEVICE FOR A TRUCK TRAILER | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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