Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marquardt GmbH has 3 pending office actions focused in the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units at the patent office. The presence of 3 pending office actions in the Communications sector indicates an active interest in protecting the company's networking and data transmission innovations. With 2 distinct art units involved, the portfolio is concentrated in a limited number of technical departments.
The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is currently assigned to a different individual. CARLOS E GARCIA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners managing the 3 pending office actions, each matter is assigned to a different official. Practitioners should note the lack of examiner overlap when coordinating responses across this Communications portfolio, as each of the 3 pending office actions will require a strategy tailored to a different examiner's perspective. The involvement of CARLOS E GARCIA as the busiest examiner for only 1 pending office action highlights the distributed nature of the current workload.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 76.9% | +16.4% |
| ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | 1 | 74.1% | +30.4% |
| DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1 | 23.0% | +25.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877124 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM WITH A PLURALITY OF UWB ANTENNAS | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
| 18443046 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | DAM, DUSTIN Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861492 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE FOR AUTHENTICATING PORTABLE AUTHENTICATION DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | 5d |
| 18877124 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM WITH A PLURALITY OF UWB ANTENNAS | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
| 18443046 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | DAM, DUSTIN Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877124 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM WITH A PLURALITY OF UWB ANTENNAS | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18861492 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE FOR AUTHENTICATING PORTABLE AUTHENTICATION DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18443046 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | DAM, DUSTIN Q | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
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