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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tpk Glass Solutions (Xiamen) Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This distinct examiner is ROBERT J MICHAUD, who is the only examiner currently processing the company's pending workload.
The prosecution is focused within a distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technical scope within the Communications field. ROBERT J MICHAUD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding a busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents the total active engagement between the company and the patent office at this time.
The involvement of only a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner creates a highly centralized prosecution environment. Because ROBERT J MICHAUD holds the busiest examiner pending office action, the immediate success of the portfolio depends on this individual's review. This concentration makes the management of the 1 pending office action straightforward but limits the company to a single examiner's perspective within the Communications sector.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHAUD, ROBERT J | 1 | 83.5% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19386648 | TOUCH ASSEMBLY | MICHAUD, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19386648 | TOUCH ASSEMBLY | MICHAUD, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19386648 | TOUCH ASSEMBLY | MICHAUD, ROBERT J | 2622 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
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