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
Sane Products Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing exactly one action for the company. This spread of work across multiple examiners can lead to varied prosecution experiences even within the same technical field, requiring a flexible approach to examiner-specific feedback.
The portfolio's active matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, providing a consistent administrative backdrop for the 2 pending office actions. HU, KANG is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. This level of activity suggests a focused art unit footprint despite the involvement of multiple examiners. Practitioners can leverage the stability of the 1 distinct art unit to streamline procedural responses while addressing the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HU, KANG | 1 | 36.6% | +35.3% |
| GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 1 | 85.1% | +6.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18376634 | PHONE BRACKET | GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 147d 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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18990305 | GAMING CONTROLLER ASSEMBLY AND GAMING CONTROLLER | HU, KANG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18376634 | PHONE BRACKET | GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 2648 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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