Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Outward Inc. has 4 pending office actions currently active in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling a single pending matter. Furthermore, the portfolio is distributed across several distinct art units, showing a high degree of fragmentation across different examination groups within the USPTO. This structure requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously within the Communications field.
RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR is the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 pending office action. The presence of 1 distinct art unit for each action suggests that the company's Communications filings cover a broad range of specific sub-technologies. Practitioners should be prepared for distinct sets of prior art interpretations, as each pending office action is being handled in a different art unit by a different examiner. This decentralized approach may require more resources to ensure consistency across the various Communications applications.
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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 1 | 76.4% | +12.7% |
| PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | 1 | 83.8% | +13.6% |
| YANG, YI | 1 | 72.2% | +18.0% |
| REGO, DOMINIC E | 1 | 86.8% | +7.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242282 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES | REGO, DOMINIC E | 70d |
| 18942169 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITING | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19029976 | MULTI-CAMERA 3D CONTENT CREATION | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | — |
| 18942169 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITING | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | — |
| 18439026 | AUTOMATED MESH GENERATION | YANG, YI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2426 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19029976 | MULTI-CAMERA 3D CONTENT CREATION | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18942169 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITING | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | 2617 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18439026 | AUTOMATED MESH GENERATION | YANG, YI | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18242282 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES | REGO, DOMINIC E | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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