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
The patent portfolio for Mr Steven M Hoffberg is concentrated within the Communications technology area. Currently, the prosecution activity is limited to 1 pending office action. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly focused and narrow prosecution pipeline. Such a concentrated structure means that the outcome of the portfolio's current active phase depends entirely on the evaluation within this specific administrative division of the patent office.
ALEXANDER J KRZYSTAN serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing the 1 busiest examiner pending action currently on record. With 1 busiest examiner pending action out of a total of 1, the entirety of the portfolio's active office actions is concentrated under KRZYSTAN's review. This singular point of contact defines the current interaction between the applicant and the patent office. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the only pending action indicates that the technical subject matter is being treated as a unified concept within the Communications field. This lack of examiner diversity means that the applicant's current strategy is fully committed to a single prosecution path.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794323 | TWO DIMENSIONAL TO THREE DIMENSIONAL MOVING IMAGE CONVERTER | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18794323 | TWO DIMENSIONAL TO THREE DIMENSIONAL MOVING IMAGE CONVERTER | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
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