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
J.B. Poindexter & Company is active in the Communications technology area with 2 pending office actions. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 1 distinct art unit, indicating a technical concentration despite the involvement of multiple examiners. This structure suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the communications sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KAISER, SYED M. This examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action, which accounts for half of the 2 total pending actions for the company. With 2 distinct examiners for the actions, the prosecution is split between two individuals within the same art unit. The 1 pending office action assigned to KAISER, SYED M represents the entirety of their current workload for this portfolio.
Practitioners should note that while the 2 pending office actions are technically related within 1 distinct art unit, the use of 2 distinct examiners may lead to different prosecution outcomes. The strategy for J.B. Poindexter & Company must balance the technical consistency of the Communications art unit with the individual requirements of each examiner. The outcome of the active actions will be determined by these two separate interactions.
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%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAISER, SYED M | 1 | 86.1% | +6.7% |
| YANG, JAMES J | 1 | 57.0% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19069827 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE LIGHTING | KAISER, SYED 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18595041 | Commercial Vehicle With Tool Storage Sensors | YANG, JAMES J | 127d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19069827 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE LIGHTING | KAISER, SYED M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 18595041 | Commercial Vehicle With Tool Storage Sensors | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | 127d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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