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
Simpson Strong-Tie A/S manages a company patent portfolio focused on the Communications technology area. Currently, the portfolio contains 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated in a single administrative location.
CARTER, AARON W is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this specific examiner is handling all active matters at the patent office.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter of the portfolio is specialized within the broader Communications field. For a patent practitioner, the fact that there is only 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for multiple examiner temperaments. Instead, the outcome for the active matter relies solely on the specific requirements and interpretations of CARTER, AARON W.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, AARON W | 1 | 84.9% | +8.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910777 | Methods for Selecting, Inspecting and Evaluating Brackets and Their Fastening Configurations in Construction | CARTER, AARON W | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17910777 | Methods for Selecting, Inspecting and Evaluating Brackets and Their Fastening Configurations in Construction | CARTER, AARON W | 2661 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
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