Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sauce Labs Inc. operates a company patent portfolio within the Computing & Software technology area. The current prosecution landscape is defined by 1 pending office action, representing the current workload before the USPTO. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, AGUILERA, TODD, who is the only examiner identified in the data. Additionally, the portfolio's activity is confined to a distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical direction for the pending software claims. AGUILERA, TODD is the busiest examiner, with the busiest examiner pending action currently under review.
For patent practitioners, the presence of 1 pending office action suggests a highly concentrated prosecution strategy. Since a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit are involved, the company can focus its resources on the specific requirements and historical trends of that single examination environment. The fact that AGUILERA, TODD handles the busiest examiner pending action confirms that all current USPTO interactions are centralized. This focus within the Computing & Software sector allows for a precise approach to addressing office actions and managing software-specific hurdles.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGUILERA, TODD | 1 | 57.6% | +57.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17644498 | MANAGING A GLOBAL NETWORK OF VIRTUAL TESTERS | AGUILERA, TODD | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2192 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17644498 | MANAGING A GLOBAL NETWORK OF VIRTUAL TESTERS | AGUILERA, TODD | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
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