Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Videojet Technologies Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing that each action is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having total control over the current portfolio. Such a spread of oversight can lead to a more robust set of granted patents by incorporating feedback from multiple experts.
JOHN R WALLACE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The actions are also spread across distinct art units. For the company, this means that the 2 pending office actions must be advanced through different examiners without any shared oversight or departmental overlap. This requires a highly individualized prosecution strategy for each case to address the specific concerns of the assigned examiners in 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALLACE, JOHN R | 1 | 78.3% | +22.7% |
| WAHID, MUSADDIQUE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838838 | VARIABLE DATA MARKING UNIT WITH MULTIPLE CONNECTIVITY MODES | WAHID, MUSADDIQUE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934343 | Method for Detecting an Issue with an Industrial Printer | WALLACE, JOHN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2682 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934343 | Method for Detecting an Issue with an Industrial Printer | WALLACE, JOHN R | 2682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18838838 | VARIABLE DATA MARKING UNIT WITH MULTIPLE CONNECTIVITY MODES | WAHID, MUSADDIQUE | 2192 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVideojet Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
John R Wallace has the most, with 1 of Videojet Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.