Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smart Rain Systems LLC has 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage separate sets of examiner expectations and prosecution timelines. Each examiner may have a different interpretation of software patentability requirements.
The portfolio is also spread across distinct art units, matching the number of pending actions and examiners. ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct art units involved, the company's pending applications likely cover multiple technical sub-specialties within the computing sector. This high level of dispersion for the pending office actions means that each case is being prosecuted in a unique administrative environment.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 1 | 82.9% | +17.2% |
| OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT | 1 | 65.0% | +35.5% |
| ERDMAN, CHAD G | 1 | 80.1% | +18.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17851994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIELD SENSING UTILIZING IRRIGATION SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18535671 | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT IRRIGATION SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18072377 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CLOUD-BASED IRRIGATION CONTROL | OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT | 59d overdue |
| 18535671 | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT IRRIGATION SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
| 17851994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIELD SENSING UTILIZING IRRIGATION SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18535671 | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT IRRIGATION SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2857 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18072377 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CLOUD-BASED IRRIGATION CONTROL | OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17851994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIELD SENSING UTILIZING IRRIGATION SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 2116 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
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