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
Opsec Security Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, BALI, VIKKRAM, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current communications-related patent filings. This singular focus suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is not diversified across different technical classifications or examination groups within the communications field.
The concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means the company's current patent outcomes are dependent on a single point of review. This structure suggests a highly specialized entry into the communications field. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of BALI, VIKKRAM, as this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the 1 pending office action currently active in the portfolio. The success of the company's current patent efforts depends entirely on the interactions within this 1 distinct art unit and with this specific examiner, requiring a highly targeted legal argument.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALI, VIKKRAM | 1 | 81.5% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624922 | TAG IDENTIFICATION | BALI, VIKKRAM | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624922 | TAG IDENTIFICATION | BALI, VIKKRAM | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18624922 | TAG IDENTIFICATION | BALI, VIKKRAM | 2663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
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