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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Legic Identsystems AG currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, NAM V, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The 3 pending office actions are distributed such that each action is in a different art unit and assigned to a different examiner. This one-to-one ratio between the 3 actions and the 3 examiners means there is no overlap in the current prosecution personnel. Practitioners must navigate the distinct examiner preferences within the Communications area.
The use of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's communications technology is classified across multiple specialized groups. This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the specific nuances of each of the 3 distinct art units involved.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, NAM V | 1 | 78.5% | +14.3% |
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 76.9% | +16.4% |
| GAO, JING | 1 | 57.8% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581895 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING AND ENABLING PHYSICAL ACCESS TO CONTENTS OF A TRANSPORT CONTAINER | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865373 | METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A SPACE | NGUYEN, NAM V | 50d overdue |
| 18581895 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING AND ENABLING PHYSICAL ACCESS TO CONTENTS OF A TRANSPORT CONTAINER | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
| 18277118 | Device and Method of Managing Mobile Communication Entities in an Ultra-Wideband Transceiver | GAO, JING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865373 | METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A SPACE | NGUYEN, NAM V | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18581895 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING AND ENABLING PHYSICAL ACCESS TO CONTENTS OF A TRANSPORT CONTAINER | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18277118 | Device and Method of Managing Mobile Communication Entities in an Ultra-Wideband Transceiver | GAO, JING | 2647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
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