Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Modulate Inc. is focused on the Communications technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the applicant to adapt to three different personal styles and examination approaches within the portfolio.
The prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit. Despite having multiple examiners, they are all operating within the same technical department. This suggests that while the examiners are different, the overarching examination standards and art unit policies will be consistent across all actions. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific guidelines and precedents of this 1 unit.
JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. The busiest examiner pending count is 1, which confirms that the pending actions are split equally among the examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's habits will disproportionately affect the overall portfolio status. Practitioners should prepare for a diverse set of examiner interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | 1 | 91.3% | -12.9% |
| WOZNIAK, JAMES S | 1 | 59.1% | +39.7% |
| KIM, JONATHAN C | 1 | 73.6% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19231045 | USER INTERFACE FOR CONTENT MODERATION FOR VOICE CHAT | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660835 | MULTI-STAGE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR CONTENT MODERATION | WOZNIAK, JAMES S | 29d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660835 | MULTI-STAGE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR CONTENT MODERATION | WOZNIAK, JAMES S | 29d overdue |
| 18132251 | PREDICTIVE AUDIO REDACTION FOR REALTIME COMMUNICATION | KIM, JONATHAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2655 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19231045 | USER INTERFACE FOR CONTENT MODERATION FOR VOICE CHAT | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 18660835 | MULTI-STAGE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR CONTENT MODERATION | WOZNIAK, JAMES S | 2655 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18132251 | PREDICTIVE AUDIO REDACTION FOR REALTIME COMMUNICATION | KIM, JONATHAN C | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
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