Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Radio Systems Corporation has pending office action activity in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 pending office actions are split between distinct examiners. This distribution shows that the workload is divided, preventing a specific individual from dominating the prosecution of the current portfolio. The 2 pending office actions represent the total current workload for the company in this area.
The matters are also divided across 2 distinct art units. This variety in art units may introduce different examination perspectives and procedural nuances into the prosecution process. CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS is the busiest examiner and is currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio is spread across multiple art units and examiners, the company must adapt its strategy to the specific requirements of multiple examination environments simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 1 | 36.7% | +16.1% |
| PHAM, QUANG | 1 | 54.2% | +57.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18883012 | ANTI-PULLING ANIMAL COLLAR | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 60d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801033 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING A SUBJECT IN A PREMISE | PHAM, QUANG | 9d overdue |
| 18883012 | ANTI-PULLING ANIMAL COLLAR | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 60d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18883012 | ANTI-PULLING ANIMAL COLLAR | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 3642 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18801033 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING A SUBJECT IN A PREMISE | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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