Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Materialise N V has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are being processed in 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the pending applications share a closely related technical foundation. The prosecution involves distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual despite the shared technical classification.
GARCIA, SANTIAGO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending action under his review. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, the company must manage different perspectives on how the art unit applies patentability standards to their Communications technology. The presence of distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit allows the company to observe how different individuals interpret the same set of technical standards.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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, SANTIAGO | 1 | 87.9% | +13.6% |
| ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 1 | 76.7% | +10.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757104 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON MACHINE VISION AND 3D MODELS | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757104 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON MACHINE VISION AND 3D MODELS | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
| 18752647 | METHOD TO SEMI-AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINE VIRTUAL DENTAL OCCLUSION | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18757104 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON MACHINE VISION AND 3D MODELS | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 2673 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18752647 | METHOD TO SEMI-AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINE VIRTUAL DENTAL OCCLUSION | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
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