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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Heavys Inc. currently has a patent portfolio focused on the Communications technology area. The prosecution data shows 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This single action is situated within a single distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current active interest at the patent office is highly specific and limited in volume. This focused presence suggests a targeted filing strategy rather than a broad, multi-faceted approach to the Communications sector.
The busiest examiner for Heavys Inc. is DEANE JR, WILLIAM J, who is currently overseeing a single pending office action. Because this examiner is the only one listed for the portfolio, the progress of the company's communications-related intellectual property is currently tied to this individual's review. The alignment of a single pending action with a single examiner and a single art unit suggests a streamlined but narrow prosecution footprint for the company at this time. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this examiner to anticipate the likely path forward for this pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 1 | 82.4% | +2.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709749 | HEADPHONES COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ACOUSTIC ELEMENTS | DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709749 | HEADPHONES COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ACOUSTIC ELEMENTS | DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 2693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
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