Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Iron Mountain Incorporated operates within the Communications technology area. The company currently has 5 pending office actions being processed. These 5 pending office actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This distribution of 5 pending office actions across 5 distinct examiners indicates a diversified prosecution strategy. OWAIS IQBAL MEMON is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action.
This workload for OWAIS IQBAL MEMON represents 1 of the 5 pending office actions for the company. The spread across 5 distinct art units suggests that Iron Mountain Incorporated is pursuing patents across different technical sub-specialties within the Communications field. For practitioners, this level of distribution means that the portfolio is not dependent on any single examiner or art unit. With OWAIS IQBAL MEMON and the other 5 distinct examiners each handling 1 pending office action, the prosecution risk is spread across different examination groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEMON, OWAIS IQBAL | 1 | 77.6% | +14.7% |
| SARMA, ABHISHEK | 1 | 83.5% | +0.3% |
| LEGGETT, ANDREA C. | 1 | 76.0% | +20.6% |
| BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 1 | 75.7% | +29.9% |
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902495 | SINGLE-IMAGE CAPTURE DOCUMENT BOUNDARY DETECTION VIA MULTI-DIRECTIONAL SPECTRALLY-DISTINCT ILLUMINATION | SARMA, ABHISHEK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775917 | DOCUMENT ENTITY EXTRACTION | LEGGETT, ANDREA C. | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17704391 | MEDIA DECLASSIFICATION DEVICE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 12d |
| 18902404 | Absolute Coordinate Pathology Slide Scanning | MEMON, OWAIS IQBAL | — |
| 18775917 | DOCUMENT ENTITY EXTRACTION | LEGGETT, ANDREA C. | — |
| 18604902 | ONE-SHOT MULTIMODAL LEARNING FOR DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18902404 | Absolute Coordinate Pathology Slide Scanning | MEMON, OWAIS IQBAL | 2663 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18902495 | SINGLE-IMAGE CAPTURE DOCUMENT BOUNDARY DETECTION VIA MULTI-DIRECTIONAL SPECTRALLY-DISTINCT ILLUMINATION | SARMA, ABHISHEK | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18775917 | DOCUMENT ENTITY EXTRACTION | LEGGETT, ANDREA C. | 2171 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18604902 | ONE-SHOT MULTIMODAL LEARNING FOR DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 17704391 | MEDIA DECLASSIFICATION DEVICE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
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