Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harman Professional Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's current prosecution efforts. The application is assigned to a distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical niche within the broader communications field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ANWAH, OLISA, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending actions is limited, this examiner is the only official currently interacting with the company's pending filings. This single point of contact simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio but also means that the company's immediate success depends on this individual.
The presence of the pending office action across the distinct art unit suggests a very streamlined prosecution profile. For practitioners, this means that the current focus is entirely on the interaction with ANWAH, OLISA. There are no other active examiners or art units in the data to provide a baseline for comparison or to diversify the company's current exposure to USPTO decision-making in the Communications area. Strategy should be optimized for the specific tendencies of this single examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANWAH, OLISA | 1 | 89.0% | +4.8% |
| BRINEY III, WALTER F | 1 | 65.5% | +3.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001955 | DUAL COMPRESSION DRIVER WITH INBOARD ANNULAR EXIT | ANWAH, OLISA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902090 | DUAL COMPRESSION DRIVER WITH RECTANGULAR EXIT | BRINEY III, WALTER F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001955 | DUAL COMPRESSION DRIVER WITH INBOARD ANNULAR EXIT | ANWAH, OLISA | 2692 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18902090 | DUAL COMPRESSION DRIVER WITH RECTANGULAR EXIT | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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