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
Pictor Labs Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently handled by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a specific technological challenge within the communications sector. Such a focused approach can lead to a more efficient prosecution process by avoiding the need to navigate multiple art unit standards.
The busiest examiner, PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents the full extent of the company's pending workload. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action, the company's immediate prosecution strategy is centered on resolving the issues raised by this specific individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER, as this examiner's decisions will determine the immediate success of the company's patenting efforts. The lack of diversification across examiners means that every communication with the USPTO must be carefully managed to ensure a positive outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319843 | METHOD OF GENERATING INFERENCE-BASED VIRTUALLY STAINED IMAGE ANNOTATIONS | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 132d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319843 | METHOD OF GENERATING INFERENCE-BASED VIRTUALLY STAINED IMAGE ANNOTATIONS | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 132d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18319843 | METHOD OF GENERATING INFERENCE-BASED VIRTUALLY STAINED IMAGE ANNOTATIONS | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 132d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
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