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 • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suprema Inc. has 1 pending office action currently active in the Communications technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE, who is also listed as the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very narrow and focused current workload at the patent office.
Because there is only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate prosecution profile is highly concentrated. OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE handles the entirety of the pending matters for Suprema Inc. at this time. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current legal focus is limited to a specific technical niche within the Communications sector.
For a practitioner, this data indicates a very low volume of active interaction with the patent office. With only 1 pending office action, there is no examiner diversity to manage. The prosecution strategy for this portfolio is currently tied to the specific requirements and preferences of a single examiner in a single art unit. The 1 distinct art unit defines the technical boundaries of the current prosecution, requiring a deep understanding of that specific classification.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE | 1 | 73.2% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THREAT DETECTION BASED ON FACIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS | OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THREAT DETECTION BASED ON FACIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS | OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18952356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THREAT DETECTION BASED ON FACIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS | OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE | 2668 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
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