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
Soundfocus Aps has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MOHAMMED, ASSAD is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio's active prosecution is limited to this 1 pending office action.
The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current filing. Because the company works with 1 distinct examiner, the progress of the 1 pending office action is tied to the review of MOHAMMED, ASSAD. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the company's active efforts in the Communications sector. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit to ensure efficient prosecution. The lack of examiner diversity means that the company's immediate success depends on a single individual's assessment of 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOHAMMED, ASSAD | 1 | 73.4% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577630 | Method And Loudspeaker System For Processing An Input Audio Signal | MOHAMMED, ASSAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18577630 | Method And Loudspeaker System For Processing An Input Audio Signal | MOHAMMED, ASSAD | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
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