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 • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sony Honda Mobility Inc. currently manages a company patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The portfolio features 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by a single distinct examiner. This creates a highly focused prosecution environment where a sole matter represents the company's entire current activity at the patent office. The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property filings in the communications sector.
SMALL, NAOMI J is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual action constitutes the entire pending workload for the company. As a result, the progression and eventual outcome of the pending matter are entirely dependent on the examination by this single official.
For practitioners, this concentrated structure means that all current prosecution efforts are directed toward a single point of contact. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no need to manage diverse examination styles or varying art unit standards. The success of the company's current communications-related IP strategy rests on the resolution of the 1 pending office action handled by SMALL, NAOMI J. This singular focus allows for a very targeted approach to the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALL, NAOMI J | 1 | 63.9% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19142439 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | SMALL, NAOMI J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19142439 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | SMALL, NAOMI J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19142439 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | SMALL, NAOMI J | 2685 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
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