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
Mertek Industries LLC is managing 1 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art units, indicating a specific technical focus for their current patent applications. The company is interacting with 1 distinct examiners, which means all current regulatory feedback is coming from this source. This eliminates the need to reconcile different examiner styles or conflicting requirements from multiple units.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HONG, DUNG, who currently has 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total count of 1 pending office actions is concentrated, this examiner is handling the entirety of the company's active workload. For practitioners, the presence of 1 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art units simplifies the prosecution landscape. The goal is to resolve the applications by addressing the specific technical and procedural requirements of this individual within the Communications sector. This interaction is the primary driver of the portfolio's current progress.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HONG, DUNG | 1 | 83.8% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18318695 | PATCH CORD INCLUDING WIRELESS COMPONENTS | HONG, DUNG | 29d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18318695 | PATCH CORD INCLUDING WIRELESS COMPONENTS | HONG, DUNG | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18318695 | PATCH CORD INCLUDING WIRELESS COMPONENTS | HONG, DUNG | 2643 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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