Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Somos Inc. is navigating 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This workload is spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, suggesting a high level of examiner variety per action. With 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the company's current prosecution is entirely decentralized, with each matter being reviewed by a different individual.
PICH, PONNOREAY is the busiest examiner for this set of filings, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Since all 4 distinct examiners are handling exactly 1 of the 4 pending office actions, the designation of a busiest examiner is shared among the group. Practitioners must therefore develop 4 separate examiner-specific strategies to successfully advance these 4 pending office actions.
The distribution of these actions across 3 distinct art units further indicates that the company's Communications filings are not concentrated in a single specialized group. This requires the applicant to address the specific prior art and procedural expectations of 3 different art units. Effectively managing 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units requires a broad-based approach to patent advocacy that accounts for multiple examiner perspectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEI, XIAOMING | 1 | 82.0% | +17.3% |
| MADANI, FARIDEH | 1 | 77.7% | +19.3% |
| ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | 1 | 78.0% | +25.8% |
| SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 1 | 18.8% | +1.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304722 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | WEI, XIAOMING | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17722122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT FOR REGISTERED INTERNET OF THINGS UNIVERSAL ID (IOT DEVICES) | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304722 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | WEI, XIAOMING | 28d |
| 17865668 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS CALL VALIDATION PLATFORM | MADANI, FARIDEH | — |
| 17722012 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE REGISTRY | ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2643 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18304722 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | WEI, XIAOMING | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17865668 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS CALL VALIDATION PLATFORM | MADANI, FARIDEH | 2643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
| 17722012 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE REGISTRY | ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17722122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT FOR REGISTERED INTERNET OF THINGS UNIVERSAL ID (IOT DEVICES) | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 2432 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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