Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Squint Inc. is prosecuting patents within the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technology spans different technical niches within the communications sector. Additionally, the company is interacting with 2 distinct examiners, which requires managing separate sets of examiner preferences and timelines.
COBB, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner handles a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. The distribution of the workload across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners indicates a decentralized prosecution environment. Practitioners must develop distinct strategies for COBB, MICHAEL J and the other examiner to address the specific technical requirements of the 2 distinct art units. This approach will ensure that the active matters are handled with the necessary attention to detail in the Communications field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.7% | +36.2% |
| SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM | 1 | 73.5% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463255 | ANOMALY DETECTION FOR GUIDED PROCEDURES IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT | COBB, MICHAEL J | 30d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463255 | ANOMALY DETECTION FOR GUIDED PROCEDURES IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT | COBB, MICHAEL J | 30d overdue |
| 18456190 | PINNING VIRTUAL OBJECTS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT | SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2615 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18463255 | ANOMALY DETECTION FOR GUIDED PROCEDURES IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18456190 | PINNING VIRTUAL OBJECTS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT | SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM | 2172 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
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