Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Power Forest Technology Corporation has 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across multiple examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that the company's active filings are technically diverse enough to be categorized into different specialized groups within the USPTO. Each case is subject to an independent evaluation by a different examiner, which may lead to varying prosecution timelines.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ADVINCULA, LAURENZ, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is perfectly balanced between the active matters. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate the specific requirements and examination styles of different art units simultaneously. Practitioners should be aware that the outcomes in a specific unit may not necessarily influence the proceedings in the other due to this separation. This technical split suggests that the company is pursuing multiple innovations within the computing 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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVINCULA, LAURENZ | 1 | — | — |
| OBERLY, ERIC T | 1 | 74.1% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744706 | POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM | OBERLY, ERIC T | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970818 | CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS | ADVINCULA, LAURENZ | 2175 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18744706 | POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM | OBERLY, ERIC T | 2184 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
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