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
Ics AI Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This active prosecution is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SARPONG, AKWASI, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, SARPONG, AKWASI, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents the total pending volume for the company. The concentration of the portfolio's activity under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit highlights a focused approach to patent prosecution in the Communications sector.
For Ics AI Ltd., the prosecution process is streamlined, with all current office actions being managed by a single individual. This means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to the specific examination of SARPONG, AKWASI. The data shows no distribution of work across other examiners, indicating a highly centralized point of contact for the company's pending intellectual property matters. This structure can facilitate more direct negotiations, but it also means that the entire pending portfolio is subject to the specific art unit standards and examiner preferences of this single point of contact.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARPONG, AKWASI | 1 | 68.2% | +28.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700840 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS | SARPONG, AKWASI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18700840 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS | SARPONG, AKWASI | 2681 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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