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
Hong Kong Baptist University shows 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and distinct art units, indicating a spread of examination for the current portfolio size. The presence of distinct art units suggests that the communications technologies being pursued may span different technical classifications or sub-specialties within the USPTO. This distribution requires the university to navigate multiple examination styles simultaneously.
The busiest examiner identified is SINHA, SNIGDHA, who handles 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending figure of 1 represents a portion of the total pending office actions currently active for the university. Practitioners should note that the workload is evenly split, as no examiner manages more than a single pending matter across the identified art units. This arrangement ensures that the university's communications filings are not overly dependent on the discretion of a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINHA, SNIGDHA | 1 | 33.3% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670740 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING COPYRIGHT PROTECTION TO IMPLICIT 3D MODEL | SINHA, SNIGDHA | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18670740 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING COPYRIGHT PROTECTION TO IMPLICIT 3D MODEL | SINHA, SNIGDHA | 2619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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