Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sick has 1 pending office action currently active at the USPTO. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio in 1 unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. This structure provides a singular point of contact for the company's active prosecution, as there is no distribution across multiple officials or administrative groups. The presence of only 1 pending action indicates a very limited current engagement with the patent office.
RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action constitutes the entire pending workload for the company. For a practitioner, this means that the progress of the company's current patent strategy is dependent on the review of this 1 examiner within 1 art unit. The centralized nature of the prosecution under 1 official means that the outcome of this single matter will determine the immediate success of the company's active filings. The focus within 1 art unit ensures that the technical review remains within a single specialized group.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 1 | 77.2% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526126 | Optoelectronic sensor and method for the detection and distance determination of objects | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526126 | Optoelectronic sensor and method for the detection and distance determination of objects | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18526126 | Optoelectronic sensor and method for the detection and distance determination of objects | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 4100 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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