Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ipactory Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This single action is assigned to SPOONER, LAMONT M, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The portfolio's current activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing that the company's software-related prosecution is currently focused on a single matter.
In the Computing & Software technology area, where filings can often be technically diverse, Ipactory Inc. has its current activity confined to 1 distinct art unit. SPOONER, LAMONT M is the sole examiner responsible for the 1 pending office action, making this individual the central figure in the company's current prosecution landscape. This concentration means that the company's immediate patent results are tied to the evaluation of 1 distinct examiner within one specific technical group.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPOONER, LAMONT M | 1 | 73.6% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19062793 | PATENT DOCUMENT CREATING DEVICE, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, SERVER AND SYSTEM | SPOONER, LAMONT M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2174 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062793 | PATENT DOCUMENT CREATING DEVICE, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, SERVER AND SYSTEM | SPOONER, LAMONT M | 2174 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
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