Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saturn Licensing LLC currently faces 10 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. The portfolio exhibits a high degree of technical dispersion, as these matters are spread across 9 distinct art units. This variety suggests that the company's intellectual property covers a wide range of sub-specialties within the broader communications field.
The examination process is fragmented, involving 10 distinct examiners. With every pending matter reviewed by a different individual, there is no overlap in the current workload. This lack of concentration means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific preferences of each examiner, as there is no opportunity to leverage a relationship with a single primary contact.
SALCE, JASON P is noted as the busiest examiner, yet they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This figure highlights the distribution of the portfolio, where no examiner holds more than a single case. Practitioners should prepare for unique examiner interviews and responses across the 9 distinct art units involved in these Communications filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (45%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALCE, JASON P | 1 | 68.1% | +16.2% |
| TUMEBO, TSION M | 1 | 66.5% | +20.2% |
| DUDEK, JAMES A | 1 | 82.2% | +3.1% |
| SATTI, HUMAM M | 1 | 63.6% | +17.9% |
| ABEBE, SOSINA | 1 | 72.9% | +18.0% |
| SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 1 | 84.9% | +8.7% |
| HAILU, TADESSE | 1 | 78.0% | +4.0% |
| LE, RONG | 1 | 68.4% | +29.5% |
| BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 1 | 47.5% | +30.1% |
| FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A | 1 | 85.5% | +8.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966235 | DISPLAY UNIT HAVING A CURVED DISPLAY PANEL | DUDEK, JAMES A | — |
| 18387097 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FUNCTION, AND METHOD OF GENERATING TRAINED NEURAL NETWORK MODEL | FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270042 | Display Device | CHI, SUBERR L | 17d overdue |
| 18855138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | ABEBE, SOSINA | — |
| 18837258 | Sound Output Device | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | — |
| 18721505 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, And Program | HAILU, TADESSE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19265055 | DISPLAY DEVICE | TUMEBO, TSION M | 23d overdue |
| 18961549 | TELEVISION RECEIVER COUPLED TO A CONNECTION DEVICE | SATTI, HUMAM M | 28d |
| 18580933 | Information Processing System And Control Method Employing Gesture Control | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 84d |
| 19310082 | Display Control Device, Display Control Method, and Program | SALCE, JASON P | — |
| 18855138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | ABEBE, SOSINA | — |
| 18432643 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD | LE, RONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2421 | 2 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2422 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2174 | 1 |
| 2151 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19310082 | Display Control Device, Display Control Method, and Program | SALCE, JASON P | 2421 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19265055 | DISPLAY DEVICE | TUMEBO, TSION M | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 18966235 | DISPLAY UNIT HAVING A CURVED DISPLAY PANEL | DUDEK, JAMES A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18961549 | TELEVISION RECEIVER COUPLED TO A CONNECTION DEVICE | SATTI, HUMAM M | 2422 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18855138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | ABEBE, SOSINA | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18837258 | Sound Output Device | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 2694 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18721505 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, And Program | HAILU, TADESSE | 2174 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18432643 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD | LE, RONG | 2421 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18580933 | Information Processing System And Control Method Employing Gesture Control | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 2151 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18387097 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FUNCTION, AND METHOD OF GENERATING TRAINED NEURAL NETWORK MODEL | FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A | 2624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18270042 | Display Device | CHI, SUBERR L | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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