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
Seechange Technologies Limited is active in the Communications technology area, where it currently manages 1 pending office action. This active matter is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focus within the communications field for the company's current patenting efforts. The prosecution process involves 1 distinct examiner, centralizing the company's interactions with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the company has 1 pending office action in total, BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M is responsible for the entirety of the active workload. This relationship between the 1 examiner and the 1 pending action defines the current prosecution landscape for Seechange Technologies Limited in the Communications sector.
The data shows a focused intellectual property strategy with 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will be the primary indicator of the company's progress in securing its communications-related innovations. This scope allows for a dedicated focus on the issues raised by BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 84.0% | +10.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694063 | Image Subject Individuation and Monitoring | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694063 | Image Subject Individuation and Monitoring | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694063 | Image Subject Individuation and Monitoring | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 2661 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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