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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Top Quality Telephony LLC has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. COLUCCI, MICHAEL C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The 1 pending office action is the only active matter in the company's communications portfolio. It is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, COLUCCI, MICHAEL C, in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular and focused prosecution effort for the current pending action. With 1 pending office action, the company's current patent strategy is concentrated on a single application. COLUCCI, MICHAEL C, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, is the sole person managing this review. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that the outcome of the company's current communications filing is entirely dependent on this specific examiner's evaluation. Practitioners should note that this 1 pending action represents the full scope of the company's current active interactions with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 75.8% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013792 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | COLUCCI, MICHAEL 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013792 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19013792 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2658 | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
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