Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U S A Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's communications-related filings cover a range of sub-technologies that fall under different USPTO examination groups. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests a broad technical footprint for the current patent activities.
The prosecution of these 4 pending office actions involves 4 distinct examiners. BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The presence of 4 distinct examiners suggests a decentralized prosecution environment for the current communications portfolio. This requires the company to manage BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN and other officials simultaneously for its 1 pending office action per examiner. The 4 distinct examiners will each provide unique feedback that the company must integrate into its overall strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN | 1 | 56.7% | +0.6% |
| ROGERS, SCOTT A | 1 | 92.0% | +1.2% |
| MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 1 | 46.2% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622754 | Method and System for Document Ownership using Decentralized Identity | ROGERS, SCOTT A | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17958232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEXT RESTORATION IN CHARACTER RECOGNITION | MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18622758 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO RETRIEVE OBSCURED FORM INFORMATION | ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18622754 | Method and System for Document Ownership using Decentralized Identity | ROGERS, SCOTT A | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 17958232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEXT RESTORATION IN CHARACTER RECOGNITION | MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 2663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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