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
Slim Boumaiza holds 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. The portfolio's current examination phase involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused presence within the patent office's administrative structure. This suggests that the current intellectual property strategy is centered on a specific subset of communications technology rather than a broad array of diverse technical fields. Such a narrow focus can be advantageous for maintaining consistency in claim language.
The busiest examiner for these filings is JAIN, SWATI, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. As this represents the only active matter for the portfolio, the prosecution path in the Communications field is dependent on the interaction with this specific examiner. The lack of other active examiners means that the applicant's current success rate is tied directly to the outcomes achieved within the art unit and with the individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAIN, SWATI | 1 | 84.4% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18383985 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE CALIBRATION AND/OR LINEARIZATION OF ANTENNA ARRAYS | JAIN, SWATI | 84d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18383985 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE CALIBRATION AND/OR LINEARIZATION OF ANTENNA ARRAYS | JAIN, SWATI | 84d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2649 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18383985 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE CALIBRATION AND/OR LINEARIZATION OF ANTENNA ARRAYS | JAIN, SWATI | 2649 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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