Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mach 1 Corp. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SNIEZEK, ANDREW L. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit. This organizational structure suggests a highly focused prosecution strategy in this specific technological field, as the company is not currently navigating multiple art units or examiner perspectives.
SNIEZEK, ANDREW L is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the company's entire pending workload. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused effort in the communications field. For a practitioner, this means that the company's current success in the Communications sector depends on the outcomes of this singular interaction, emphasizing the importance of this specific examiner relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 1 | 84.9% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623616 | APPLICATIONS AND FORMAT FOR IMMERSIVE SPATIAL SOUND | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18623616 | APPLICATIONS AND FORMAT FOR IMMERSIVE SPATIAL SOUND | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 2693 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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