Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
S D Sight Diagnostics Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This variety suggests that the company's intellectual property spans several specialized niches within the broader technology area.
FATIMA, UROOJ is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though she only manages 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is evenly distributed, as each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 of the pending actions. The concentration in 3 distinct art units suggests that the examiners are operating in different technical environments. Practitioners should prepare for a diverse set of examiner perspectives when addressing the pending office actions. This distribution across the examiners requires a flexible prosecution strategy that accounts for multiple individual styles within the Communications field. Maintaining a consistent voice across these various interactions is essential for long-term portfolio health.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FATIMA, UROOJ | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 1 | 74.9% | -4.3% |
| HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 1 | 29.0% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17770365 | ACCOUNTING FOR ERRORS IN OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 46d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17770365 | ACCOUNTING FOR ERRORS IN OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2676 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18415961 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING A BODILY SAMPLE | FATIMA, UROOJ | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 17783831 | OFF-FOCUS MICROSCOPIC IMAGES OF A SAMPLE | YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 2672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
| 17770365 | ACCOUNTING FOR ERRORS IN OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 2682 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2022 |
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