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
Precipoint GmbH is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution profile is highly concentrated, with only one active application currently under review at the patent office. This concentration suggests that the company is focusing its current intellectual property efforts on a very specific technological advancement within the Communications sector, rather than spreading resources across multiple filings.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the sole examiner with a pending action for Precipoint GmbH, the progress of the company's patenting efforts is entirely dependent on this single interaction. Practitioners should analyze the specific approach of OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE to the Communications area to inform their prosecution strategy. Tailoring the response to the 1 pending office action based on the examiner's previous decisions will be vital for achieving a favorable outcome for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE | 1 | 73.2% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288776 | METHOD FOR OPTICALLY EVALUATING AN OPERATING ACCURACY OF A DIGITAL MICROSCOPE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOVABLE TABLE OF A DIGITAL MICROSCOPE, AND PHOTOMASK FOR OPTICALLY EVALUATING AN OPERATING ACCURACY OF A DIGITAL MICROSCOPE | OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288776 | METHOD FOR OPTICALLY EVALUATING AN OPERATING ACCURACY OF A DIGITAL MICROSCOPE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOVABLE TABLE OF A DIGITAL MICROSCOPE, AND PHOTOMASK FOR OPTICALLY EVALUATING AN OPERATING ACCURACY OF A DIGITAL MICROSCOPE | OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE | 2668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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