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
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to examiner GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE, who serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which represents a highly singular administrative path.
This administrative structure suggests that the pending matter is being handled through a very specific and limited channel within the patent office. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the applicant can concentrate their strategy on a single individual's interpretation of the technology area. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further suggests a narrow administrative scope.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE | 1 | 52.2% | +33.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18008572 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AN OBJECT MAP | GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18008572 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AN OBJECT MAP | GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
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