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
Next One Film Group S.r.l. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WU, MING HAN. As the sole examiner for the portfolio, WU, MING HAN is also the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a highly concentrated focus for the company's current patent activities within the USPTO's Communications division.
For the legal team, having 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the prosecution landscape. There is no need to reconcile different examiner styles or art unit practices, as all activity is funneled through WU, MING HAN. This concentration allows for a very direct and focused communication strategy regarding the 1 pending office action. The fact that 1 distinct art unit is involved suggests that the technology being patented is closely related and fits within a specific niche of the Communications field. Practitioners can focus entirely on the 1 busiest examiner pending action without the complexity of a larger, more distributed portfolio. This 1:1:1 ratio of actions to examiners to art units ensures a streamlined administrative process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, MING HAN | 1 | 76.8% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838541 | Methods and Systems for Providing a Space Extended Reality Service on Earth and an Earth Extended Reality Service on a Space Platform | WU, MING HAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838541 | Methods and Systems for Providing a Space Extended Reality Service on Earth and an Earth Extended Reality Service on a Space Platform | WU, MING HAN | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
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