Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Loft Dynamics AG currently has 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. While these actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, they are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are likely operating under the same supervisory and policy framework of a single specialized unit. This can lead to more predictable outcomes compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner managing exactly 1 active action. This structure requires the applicant to address different examiner perspectives even though the technical subject matter remains confined to a single art unit. Practitioners can leverage the fact that all pending actions are in the same unit to identify potential trends in how that specific unit interprets relevant law.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 1 | 22.1% | +23.4% |
| MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 58.2% | +25.9% |
| LI, RAYMOND CHUN LAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719218 | VALIDATION SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY (HMD) | LI, RAYMOND CHUN LAM | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962633 | VIRTUAL REALITY FLIGHT SIMULATOR | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962633 | VIRTUAL REALITY FLIGHT SIMULATOR | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | — |
| 18962758 | VIRTUALIZED AVIONICS | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18962633 | VIRTUAL REALITY FLIGHT SIMULATOR | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18962758 | VIRTUALIZED AVIONICS | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18719218 | VALIDATION SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY (HMD) | LI, RAYMOND CHUN LAM | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial