Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Reelables Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. EUGENE YUN is the busiest examiner, currently handling a single pending office action. This suggests that while the company faces multiple individuals, the technical focus remains within a single division.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit for the pending matters provides a centralized environment for the company's prosecution. Even with multiple examiners, the shared standards of the art unit may offer some predictability in how the Communications technology is evaluated. EUGENE YUN is the only person identified as the busiest examiner for the current filings.
For a practitioner, this structure means that although there are different examiners to persuade, the overarching technical criteria are likely to be consistent. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active footprint of the company at the patent office. Managing these matters within a single art unit allows for a more streamlined legal strategy compared to a more fragmented portfolio.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YUN, EUGENE | 1 | 85.4% | +4.4% |
| BALSECA, FRANKLIN D | 1 | 60.4% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982183 | WIRELESS LABEL ASSIGNMENT IDENTIFICATION DURING PRINTING | YUN, EUGENE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416666 | THIN FILM WIRELESS LABEL WITH INTEGRATED TEMPERATURE SENSOR | BALSECA, FRANKLIN D | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982183 | WIRELESS LABEL ASSIGNMENT IDENTIFICATION DURING PRINTING | YUN, EUGENE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18416666 | THIN FILM WIRELESS LABEL WITH INTEGRATED TEMPERATURE SENSOR | BALSECA, FRANKLIN D | 2688 | §112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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