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
Id Water Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical area for the current filing. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a targeted approach to securing patent protection in the communications sector.
The portfolio is managed by 1 distinct examiner, MILIA, MARK R. MILIA, MARK R is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. The company's current communications patent activity is highly focused, involving only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends entirely on the review of this individual examiner.
The alignment of the pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a streamlined prosecution footprint. This structure may allow for a more consistent dialogue between the applicant and the office, as there are no competing matters across different examiners or units. The focus on Communications ensures that the prosecution remains within a specialized technical domain, overseen by MILIA, MARK R.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILIA, MARK R | 1 | 58.9% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768046 | RECONFIGURABLE OBSERVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ABOVEWATER OBSERVATION | MILIA, MARK R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768046 | RECONFIGURABLE OBSERVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ABOVEWATER OBSERVATION | MILIA, MARK R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768046 | RECONFIGURABLE OBSERVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ABOVEWATER OBSERVATION | MILIA, MARK R | 2681 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
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