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
Nc& Co. Ltd. currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single active case is assigned to SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. Since SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH is handling 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a single point of review. This arrangement reflects a very concentrated workload at the patent office for the company's communications technology.
The portfolio's structure is further defined by the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property activity is confined to a specific technical niche within Communications. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the specific policies of a single art unit. The lack of examiner diversity means the company is not currently navigating multiple examination styles or departmental perspectives.
Strategically, having 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner allows for a streamlined and focused response strategy. However, the company's entire current workload is subject to the individual tendencies of SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH. The fact that the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit simplifies the technical landscape but increases the impact of that unit's internal benchmarks. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific expectations of the 1 distinct examiner to ensure a successful outcome for this pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 1 | 71.4% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617891 | METHOD OF OUTPUTTING ANALOG SIGNAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617891 | METHOD OF OUTPUTTING ANALOG SIGNAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18617891 | METHOD OF OUTPUTTING ANALOG SIGNAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 2667 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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