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
Transcom (Shanghai) Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, FERGUSON, KEITH, who is also the busiest examiner. The prosecution is occurring within a distinct art unit. This data reflects a highly concentrated workload where a single examiner and a single art unit handle the company's only active matter.
For a portfolio in the Communications sector, having 1 pending office action suggests a very specific or early-stage filing activity. The involvement of a single distinct art unit indicates that the pending application falls into a specific technical classification. Practitioners can focus their efforts on a single point of contact, as FERGUSON, KEITH is the sole examiner responsible for the only pending office action currently on record for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, KEITH | 1 | 86.3% | +8.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711310 | METHOD, DEVICE, PROCESSOR AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF FOR ACHIEVING RECIPROCAL CALIBRATION OF MIMO CHANNEL SIMULATOR | FERGUSON, KEITH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711310 | METHOD, DEVICE, PROCESSOR AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF FOR ACHIEVING RECIPROCAL CALIBRATION OF MIMO CHANNEL SIMULATOR | FERGUSON, KEITH | 2648 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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