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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schreder Iluminaçao SA currently manages 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized focus within the field of lighting-related communications or networking. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner means that all current feedback from the patent office is coming from a single source. This centralization simplifies the management of the portfolio and allows for a dedicated focus on the specific issues raised during examination.
CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. This represents the total volume of pending actions for the company, making this examiner the sole point of contact for their current prosecution efforts. The outcome of the application will depend on the practitioner's ability to meet the specific requirements of CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR and the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific preferences and past history of this official within the Communications field.
With only a single pending office action, the company does not face the challenge of managing multiple examiner perspectives. The focus is entirely on the Communications sector as it relates to this specific filing. This streamlined workload allows for a dedicated approach to resolving the issues raised in the single outstanding office action, ensuring that all resources are focused on this one matter. Success in this distinct art unit will be the primary indicator of the company's current patenting progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 1 | 76.9% | +17.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549996 | NETWORK SYSTEM WITH SENSOR CONFIGURATION MODEL UPDATE | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18549996 | NETWORK SYSTEM WITH SENSOR CONFIGURATION MODEL UPDATE | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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