Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
International Controls And Measurements Corporation currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a spread of oversight even within a focused portfolio. Despite this distribution, the work is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical niche for the company's current filings. This concentration allows for a more predictable examination environment as the art unit's specific guidelines will apply to all pending matters.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SINCLAIR, DAVID M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 total pending actions for the company. Practitioners should note that while the portfolio is small, the alignment with 1 art unit may lead to consistent examination standards. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for the current workload shows that no single individual currently dominates the prosecution landscape for this entity. This distribution may provide the applicant with different perspectives on their Communications technology, even as they remain within the assigned art unit's jurisdiction.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 1 | 68.4% | +19.5% |
| LUBIT, RYAN A | 1 | 63.7% | +37.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937015 | SOFT START CONTROLLERS FOR MOTORS, AND COMPONENTS OF SOFT START CONTROLLERS | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643299 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE CONTROLLER AND INTERFACE, AND METHODS | LUBIT, RYAN A | 29d |
| 18937015 | SOFT START CONTROLLERS FOR MOTORS, AND COMPONENTS OF SOFT START CONTROLLERS | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18937015 | SOFT START CONTROLLERS FOR MOTORS, AND COMPONENTS OF SOFT START CONTROLLERS | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18643299 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE CONTROLLER AND INTERFACE, AND METHODS | LUBIT, RYAN A | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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