Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pme Ip Pty Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit. Wesner Sajous is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
Having 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's Communications technology is focused within a single specialized group. Since there are 2 distinct examiners and the busiest handles 1 pending action, the workload is evenly distributed between the assigned individuals. This structure allows the company to receive feedback from two different people while staying within the same technical standards of 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should ensure that their arguments are consistent across the 2 pending office actions to avoid conflicting positions within the art unit. The focus on the Communications area indicates a targeted technical priority for the company. Because the 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, the company's success is not tied to a single person's interpretation. This provides a balanced approach to their current prosecution efforts in the Communications field.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAJOUS, WESNER | 1 | 92.0% | +7.7% |
| RICKS, DONNA J | 1 | 76.7% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19030289 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RULE BASED VISUALIZATION OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND OTHER VOLUMETRIC IMAGES | SAJOUS, WESNER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424594 | MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS | RICKS, DONNA J | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19030289 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RULE BASED VISUALIZATION OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND OTHER VOLUMETRIC IMAGES | SAJOUS, WESNER | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18424594 | MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS | RICKS, DONNA J | 2618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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