Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Synchron Australia Pty Limited has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This indicates a maximum level of dispersion for the current portfolio, as every single pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different administrative group. There is no overlap in personnel or supervisory units for these active cases.
CERULLO, LILIANA P is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 examiners for 4 pending actions, the workload is perfectly uniform across the portfolio. No single examiner or art unit has a majority of the company's active Communications filings. This distribution suggests that the technical subject matter of the 4 actions is varied enough to be classified into 4 separate specialized groups.
For a practitioner, managing these 4 pending actions across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units requires adapting to different sets of examiner preferences and administrative norms. The lack of consolidation means there is no opportunity to apply insights from one examiner's behavior to another case in the portfolio. The current data shows a fully decentralized prosecution environment for the company's communications-related applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERULLO, LILIANA P | 1 | 74.8% | +20.4% |
| HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 1 | 56.6% | +53.3% |
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 1 | 58.3% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16509403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING PLACEMENT OF DEVICES FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | LANGHALS, RENEE C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERIC CONTROL USING A NEURAL SIGNAL | CERULLO, LILIANA P | 2d overdue |
| 17649913 | NEUROMONITORING DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — |
| 16509403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING PLACEMENT OF DEVICES FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | LANGHALS, RENEE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18777847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERIC CONTROL USING A NEURAL SIGNAL | CERULLO, LILIANA P | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 17649913 | NEUROMONITORING DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
| 16509403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING PLACEMENT OF DEVICES FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2019 |
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