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
Palarum LLC holds a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area with 1 pending office action. The data indicates that 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit are involved in the current prosecution. This structure reflects a focused approach to securing intellectual property within the communications sector. The concentration of the portfolio's active matters within a single art unit suggests that the technology being patented is specialized and falls under a specific set of examination guidelines.
GIRMA, FEKADESELASS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling the pending office action. This concentration suggests that the current communications technology filings are being evaluated through a single channel at the patent office. For the practitioner, this means that the examiner's individual examination style and preferences will significantly influence the portfolio's development. Monitoring this examiner's recent actions in the communications field can provide valuable insights into the likely timeline and requirements for moving this pending matter toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 1 | 77.0% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921507 | PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18921507 | PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 2689 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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