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
Miovision Technologies US LLC is currently handling 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This reflects a focused approach to intellectual property, with all current activity centered in one specific technical domain, which may simplify the internal tracking of patent assets.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Since no other examiners are currently reviewing the company's work, the prosecution timeline is dictated by this individual's schedule and examination habits. Practitioners should look for trends in this examiner's previous actions to inform their response strategy. The examiner's familiarity with the Communications area will be critical during the interview process.
With only the distinct art unit involved, the company avoids the need to manage different departmental expectations. This allows for a more direct and simplified prosecution process for the active office action. The data indicates a narrow and specific area of current patent activity, which can be managed with a high degree of consistency.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.2% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17765903 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17765903 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
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