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
Samba Tv Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow prosecution footprint. In the communications field, such a focused profile typically indicates that the company is pursuing a specific technical improvement under the guidance of a single specialized USPTO division.
MCLEAN, NEIL R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. As the total count of pending actions is 1, this examiner is the primary authority for the company's current patent applications. The 1 distinct art unit involved will determine the examination timeline and procedural standards. Success for Samba Tv Inc. depends on meeting the specific technical requirements of MCLEAN, NEIL R, as no other examiners are currently providing feedback on the 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCLEAN, NEIL R | 1 | 79.9% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18111462 | NON-FINGERPRINT-BASED AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION | MCLEAN, NEIL R | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18111462 | NON-FINGERPRINT-BASED AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION | MCLEAN, NEIL R | 2681 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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