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
Safeguard Equipment Inc. holds a company patent portfolio within the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This work is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights within the Communications field. This lack of examiner diversity means that the company's current regulatory footprint is limited to 1 point of review.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PHUONG, DAI, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the active Communications filings. The prosecution path for the company is defined by this interaction, providing a narrow window into the patent office's evaluation of their technology. Practitioners must focus their strategy on the feedback from PHUONG, DAI, as there are no other active matters in the 1 distinct art unit to provide broader context.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHUONG, DAI | 1 | 76.0% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18217202 | ISSUING EMERGENCY ALERT(S) FOR DETECTED LIFE-THREATENING EVENTS INVOLVING POWER SYSTEMS | PHUONG, DAI | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18217202 | ISSUING EMERGENCY ALERT(S) FOR DETECTED LIFE-THREATENING EVENTS INVOLVING POWER SYSTEMS | PHUONG, DAI | 2644 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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