Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Npl Management Limited currently has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 2 pending office actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, which means each matter is under the review of a different individual. Despite having multiple examiners, the workload is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a shared technical focus across the different cases. This structure requires the applicant to manage different examiner preferences while staying within the same departmental guidelines.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LEE, SHUN K, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. For the practitioner, this means that while the technical field is consistent within the assigned department, the prosecution must account for the different styles of the assigned individuals. The presence of LEE, SHUN K as a primary contact point provides a specific focus for a portion of the current pending matters. Managing different examiners within 1 distinct art unit allows for some technical consistency in the arguments presented.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, SHUN K | 1 | 42.2% | +16.3% |
| VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 1 | 23.9% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634001 | Environmental Change Detection | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 22d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960871 | Transmission Calorimeter for Measuring Dose of Radiation | LEE, SHUN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960871 | Transmission Calorimeter for Measuring Dose of Radiation | LEE, SHUN K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18634001 | Environmental Change Detection | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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