Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mtt Innovation Incorporated currently faces 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that each pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a different unit. This variety across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property in Communications is being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the patent office.
LAM, NELSON C is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total and the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is evenly split among the assigned examiners. This lack of concentration means that the prosecution of the outstanding matters is not dominated by a single examiner's style. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate the specific requirements of 2 distinct examiners while managing the overall progress of the portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAM, NELSON C | 1 | 60.3% | +8.8% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.7% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17249287 | MULTIPLE-LASER LIGHT SOURCE | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921815 | LIGHT FIELD PROJECTORS AND METHODS FOR REDISTRIBUTING LIGHT DYNAMICALLY TO ACHIEVE A LIGHT FIELD | LAM, NELSON C | 25d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17249287 | MULTIPLE-LASER LIGHT SOURCE | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18921815 | LIGHT FIELD PROJECTORS AND METHODS FOR REDISTRIBUTING LIGHT DYNAMICALLY TO ACHIEVE A LIGHT FIELD | LAM, NELSON C | 2627 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 17249287 | MULTIPLE-LASER LIGHT SOURCE | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2021 |
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