Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Realtek Singapore Private Limited has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The current state of the portfolio shows a highly concentrated prosecution effort on this individual matter.
KRETZER, CASEY L is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's active patent applications. This alignment ensures that the prosecution strategy for the Communications sector is entirely dependent on the interaction with this one examiner.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner suggests a straightforward path for the applicant. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific concerns raised in the 1 pending office action to move the portfolio forward.
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%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRETZER, CASEY L | 1 | 86.8% | +12.7% |
| KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 1 | 69.0% | +22.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015940 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND ROUND-TRIP TIME ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF | KRETZER, CASEY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18308039 | WIRELESS NODE DEVICE | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 3d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18308039 | WIRELESS NODE DEVICE | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 3d overdue |
| 19015940 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND ROUND-TRIP TIME ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF | KRETZER, CASEY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2635 | 1 |
| 2419 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015940 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND ROUND-TRIP TIME ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF | KRETZER, CASEY L | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18308039 | WIRELESS NODE DEVICE | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 2419 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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