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
Protag Limited currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This case is assigned to a distinct examiner, CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR. The portfolio is concentrated in a distinct art unit, which reflects the technical focus for the company's current patenting activities. Because CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, the entirety of the company's active prosecution is handled by this individual.
For a practitioner, this means the outcome of the current portfolio depends on the tendencies of a specific examiner. The concentration in the art unit suggests that the prosecution strategy is specialized. The presence of the pending office action indicates the current level of active engagement with the patent office. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination history of the named individual to anticipate potential hurdles. Since there is only the active case, any delay or rejection affects the overall portfolio status. The focus on Communications suggests that the technical group is specialized in that field. This approach requires a response strategy tailored to the specific examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 1 | 76.9% | +17.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849040 | SYSTEM FOR LOCATION MONITORING AND USES THEREOF | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 88d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849040 | SYSTEM FOR LOCATION MONITORING AND USES THEREOF | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 88d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849040 | SYSTEM FOR LOCATION MONITORING AND USES THEREOF | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2689 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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