Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vodafone GmbH manages 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, and prosecution is currently focused within 1 distinct art unit. WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
Although the company is working with 2 distinct examiners, the 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical scope for the pending cases. This concentration within the art unit allows for a more unified technical strategy, even though different examiners are reviewing the 2 pending office actions. WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE is responsible for the pending office action, which is half of the company's current total in the Communications sector.
The involvement of distinct examiners means that the company must adapt to different individual review styles. However, the 1 distinct art unit ensures that the underlying technical standards remain consistent. Practitioners should carefully monitor the pending office action assigned to WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE, as well as the action handled by the other examiner, to ensure that arguments remain cohesive within the single art unit.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 1 | 89.1% | +4.3% |
| KHAN, SUHAIL | 1 | 80.2% | +27.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879637 | Roaming Radio Access to a Public Land Mobile Network | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | — |
| 18866588 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE HANDLING | KHAN, SUHAIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866588 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE HANDLING | KHAN, SUHAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879637 | Roaming Radio Access to a Public Land Mobile Network | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 2644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18866588 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE HANDLING | KHAN, SUHAIL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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