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
Picotera Electronics Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the technology area of Communications. This active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which provides a focused prosecution environment. The company's current activity is also limited to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a concentrated technical focus for the pending patent application.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PATEL, DHAVAL V, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since PATEL, DHAVAL V is responsible for the only active case in the portfolio, the prosecution effort is entirely centralized. This allows the legal team to focus its strategy on the specific feedback and examination patterns associated with this individual examiner.
Practitioners should note that the combination of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit within the Communications sector simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action. There is no need to coordinate across different art units or adapt to multiple examiner behaviors. This structure allows for a dedicated and efficient approach to addressing the specific requirements of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, DHAVAL V | 1 | 85.9% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18366590 | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, COMMUNICATION, AND SAFETY IN HEARING PROTECTION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | PATEL, DHAVAL V | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18366590 | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, COMMUNICATION, AND SAFETY IN HEARING PROTECTION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | PATEL, DHAVAL V | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18366590 | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, COMMUNICATION, AND SAFETY IN HEARING PROTECTION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | PATEL, DHAVAL V | 2631 | §102 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
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