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
Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The focused nature of this portfolio indicates a very specific point of interaction with the patent office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's communications filings are currently concentrated in a single technical division.
Juan M Guillermety is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. As this is the only pending office action for the portfolio, this examiner manages the full scope of the company's current prosecution activity. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the entire workload is centered on this individual. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate success depends on navigating the specific requirements of this single examiner. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the historical tendencies of Juan M Guillermety to effectively manage the 1 pending office action currently active for Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 1 | 72.6% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739123 | PRINTING FROM A HANDHELD DEVICE VIA A REMOTE SERVER | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 88d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739123 | PRINTING FROM A HANDHELD DEVICE VIA A REMOTE SERVER | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 2682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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