Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Subcom LLC currently faces 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution occurs across 2 distinct art units, suggesting overlap in the technical groups overseeing the applications despite the variety of individual reviewers.
The busiest examiner, WOLF, DARREN E, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the distinct examiners hold the pending office actions, no individual examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape. This variety requires the applicant to adapt to the specific preferences of different individuals across the 2 distinct art units. Managing the workload with the distinct examiners ensures that the progress of one application is unlikely to be delayed by the same hurdles facing another. The applicant must remain prepared for varied feedback as each examiner brings a unique perspective to the review process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLF, DARREN E | 1 | 85.0% | +15.2% |
| JOSEPH, DENNIS P | 1 | 49.3% | +17.5% |
| ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 1 | 71.3% | +15.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18421250 | HIGH FIBER COUNT UNDERSEA CABLE | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 4d overdue |
| 18933095 | DISTRIBUTED RECONFIGURABLE SWITCHING NODE FOR MULTIPLE CORE FIBER | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18432743 | FIBER SEGMENT AMPLIFIER ASSEMBLY | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18421250 | HIGH FIBER COUNT UNDERSEA CABLE | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 4d overdue |
| 18933095 | DISTRIBUTED RECONFIGURABLE SWITCHING NODE FOR MULTIPLE CORE FIBER | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18432743 | FIBER SEGMENT AMPLIFIER ASSEMBLY | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933095 | DISTRIBUTED RECONFIGURABLE SWITCHING NODE FOR MULTIPLE CORE FIBER | WOLF, DARREN E | 2634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18432743 | FIBER SEGMENT AMPLIFIER ASSEMBLY | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18421250 | HIGH FIBER COUNT UNDERSEA CABLE | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
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