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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orcam Technologies Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a very focused prosecution profile, where all active engagement with the USPTO is channeled through a single point of contact. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented falls into a specific niche within the broader Communications field.
WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner's role is central to the company's immediate patent goals. For practitioners, this means that the strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback from WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN. There are no other pending actions or examiners to provide a comparative baseline for prosecution within this technology area. Success for Orcam Technologies Ltd. in this instance relies on successfully addressing the specific concerns raised in the 1 pending office action within its designated art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN | 1 | 43.3% | +39.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18398971 | PROCESSING AND UTILIZING AUDIO SIGNALS BASED ON SPEECH SEPARATION | WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18398971 | PROCESSING AND UTILIZING AUDIO SIGNALS BASED ON SPEECH SEPARATION | WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
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