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 • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi has 1 pending office action currently active in the Communications technology area. This matter is being handled by a single examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused presence in the current patent prosecution landscape for the institution, with all active efforts directed toward a single application.
VLAHOS, SOPHIA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with the active case. Because there is only a single active matter overall, this examiner is responsible for all current prosecution activity. The data shows that the institution's current efforts are limited to this single interaction within the Communications field, which may reflect a highly selective filing strategy.
The presence of a single art unit and a single examiner, VLAHOS, SOPHIA, means that the institution's current strategy is entirely dependent on a single review process. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the active matter without the complexity of managing multiple examiners or art units. This singular focus allows for a precise application of resources to address the specific concerns raised in the pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VLAHOS, SOPHIA | 1 | 87.1% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19057259 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SHARED APERTURE 8N-PORT MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19057259 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SHARED APERTURE 8N-PORT MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057259 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SHARED APERTURE 8N-PORT MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | 2631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
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