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
Veoneer US LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is SMALL, NAOMI J, who is assigned 1 pending office action. The data indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution, with the current case being the only active matter.
With only 1 pending office action, the entire active portfolio is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner. This lack of diversification across multiple examiners or art units means that the company's immediate progress in the Communications sector depends on the decisions of SMALL, NAOMI J. For a practitioner, this simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the importance of the single pending case. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests the technology is being reviewed within a specific regulatory framework, requiring a strategy that is highly responsive to the specific examiner's feedback and the unit's standards.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALL, NAOMI J | 1 | 63.9% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583703 | AUTOMATED VEHICLE CHILD MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SMALL, NAOMI J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18583703 | AUTOMATED VEHICLE CHILD MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SMALL, NAOMI J | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
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